You are correct. But neocons disagree with you. Neocons love foreign wars even if it means it is on borrowed money.
How many BILLIONS we have squandered in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Kuwait, etc? And what exactly was the benefit to US tax payers? Oil is fungible commodity. Those countries have no other use for oil except sell it. They can not drink it.
So to quote Hilda beast, “what difference does it make” who owns the oil? Even Venzuela is selling us oil.
Neocons are disgraceful.