Clinton's administration took financial responsibility out of having a mortgage. Bush ignored the problem until having to provide an $800B bailout to banks to help joesixpac, and joe's never got his money. Having nothing else better to do, he started two unnecessary wars bombing camel jockeys out of existence to steal their oil--$600B deep, hiding behind 9/11 as the excuse. And why are the Arabs whizzed off? We abandoned the Jews after WWII and slam dunked them right on top of squatter Arabs called Palestinians.
About those two wars we started? For those who think we'er saving ladies from wearing burkas so they can all have the freedom to become neurosurgeons, good luck.
Want to see how to win on all fronts? Bring the guys home from overseas, take the next $600B, subsidize alternate energy so we are less dependent on foreign oil and be done with it. The Arabs can sell the oil to the Chinese who are exploding economically, we can run around in our electric cars and heat our homes with solar panels.
Want to protect Israel? That's why we have nukes.
End of story.