I've had this comment in my inbox forever and I keep forgetting to reply to it.

Anyway, yeah, that's a very silly thing to have thought! The US in no shape or form has that much power :-P It's scary to think that anyone would think that, even a child...

Anyway, the entire Middle East owes us money, anyway... money really doesn't have anything to do with it ;) Or rather, it does, but not in the way you'd expect it to, I guess.