Well it might help if other countries could pay us back from time to time. Like the 1 trillion dollar cost of the Iraqi Waar for example. Pretty much every nation throughout history other than England and the Us have demanded reparations from occupied nations, but not the good ole UsOfA. Iraqi oil sales are over 12 trillion dollars a year which means that just less than 9% of that annual total would be required to pay the cost of the war. But nope, it'll go down as a sunk cost for the U.S as we'll foot the entire bill and get virtually NOTHING economically in return. Because despite the claim that this country somehow benefits from Iraqi oil by means of this war, fact is Iraqi oil rights are PRIVATELY owned and we can't just go over there and start seizing them.