So how long does it take to get a U.S. passport to travel to foreign countries?

[RED]

Quote from the US State Department:

Current Processing Times: Processing times have changed several times in the last few months. As of March 24, we are processing routine applications in 10-13 weeks?

If you are a foreign citizen and want to travel to the US, it takes roughly 20 minutes to cross the RIO Grande, no passport needed.

[Vern Humphrey]

Understand, when you insert the US Government into the process you slow everything down to a crawl.