I agree with SW.

Our "economic interests abroad" (doublespeak for azzhole corporations like Chiquita, the oil companies and the sweatshop companies) don't need taxpayer dollars to prop up the dictators that let them operate brutal and inhuman practices with impunity.

The only company ever busted by the USAPATRIOT act was Chiquita (formerly United Fruit) for hiring known Columbian terrorist squads to machinegun down villages full of workers that refused to work in their banana plantations.