Part of what America stands for is to generate peace through out the world, or at least that's what we are told. We are a super power and the leader of technology, medical and technological research, the largest and most powerful standing military, and we have the ability to help others when in need. What you aren't understanding is that right now, Bush is trying convince the world that we are helping middle eastern countries by liberating them, building their military, putting up government buildings including schools and we are enabling woman to learn in those countries. But that's just a side note to what Bush is really doing; It's what you get when Politicians are involved in war. It's money and oil and profits. It is to benefit the industries that Bush and his partners have invested in. There is more than meets the eye, and a lot of people don't allow themselves to think that far, even though it is pretty aparent. Sometimes people don't understand is that "democrat", "republican", "green", "other" are just all labels that people most identify with. It is everyones problem when we go into war, or we go into debt, or any national problem.
Like when you drink a bottle of water you will live till 100 This isn't faith, this is hopefulness. and Bush is doing this for a reason. It wasn't pointless to go to war, because the point was going for oil and money. What is pointless, are the 100s of American and 1000s of iraqi deaths. What democrats and non-supporters argue is that we have spent too long there without any real justification. It's hard to argue that another's life & religion are stupid when you don't live in their culture or society. I know it does not seem humain to you or to many others for that matter, but if someone who believed differently from us (and they had the power) came in and blasted our country because our believes are dumb, I bet you would be pretty pissed off. The war did not start with the planes, it was just intensified and continued with 9/11. 'Democrat' Clinton had something like a $3 billion dollar and surplus 'republican' Bush now has the deficit you mention, so it seems that both sides are perpetuating the continual war we are experiencing.
But this not a Bush's problem nor a republican problem I believe you have just contradicted yourself by mentioning the deficit.