It seems to me that the line of thought behind all of this is: by sending out our help and whatnot to other countries in their times of crises makes them beholden to us at a future date. It's something this administration can hold over the heads of others when 'we' decide that we need something in return for all our generous and out-of-the-goodness-of-our-hearts rhetoric bullshit we heap on them. If we dared accept the help of others, that would make us beholden to them *GASP*. And of course, we can't have that... not the great and all encompassing super power that we are!

But that's just my opinion...