Aiding the American economy aids the American war machine. "Bush continues his endless virtuous talk of spreading democracy and freedom the world over. Admirable sentiments, yes, but what do they mean coming from a man who refuses to recognise the authority of the International Criminal Court? Or who side-steps international humanitarian law by euphemistically referring to detainee’s as “illegal combatants”? Or who sanctions the strategic use of torture in places like Abu Ghraib, and then punishes a few lowly thugs when everyone finds out? This much is clear: through it all, George W. Bush’s high-minded respect for human life, great and small, only extends so far as U.S. soil. And without universality, morality is only moral in the most zombified, most perverse sense." (AdBusters)