Buchanan indicated that it was a light drag, as well. I beg to differ. We got into the situation he described next by borrowing money for that war from the people he said we owe.
Saudi, Israel, and the other OPEC member countries benefit from us interfering in the region, and our kids come home with PTSD and (possibly) chemical/biological tainting.
Brushing off crushing debt seems easy for most of those people.
There is one underlying problem that could help right the ship, that is for oil to drop in price. It wont happen because the greedy producers have gotten use to the huge profits. So they will kill the golden goose, the US may well go under and if we do the world goes with us. Oil will worthless.