[Darkwolf377]

The US is so loathed by these people that I bet the level of anti-Americanism goes UP in these countries, as they resent the help their hated enemy gave them. And yet we can help, and we should help. Like the great song goes, Sometimes, you just can't win...

[Hugin]

And yet we can help, and we should help.

Why?

[eclectic]

I bet the level of anti-Americanism goes UP in these countries, as they resent the help their hated enemy gave them

You got that right, pardner! I say to help them is to add insult to injury, literally...

[John Valentine]

If you think that the USA is loathed in Aceh, you shold go there. Your eyes might be opened.

I will guarantee you thet the gratitude felt by the people we are helping is genuine and deep. Not only that, I am equally certain that it is expressed every day to our personnel in many ways, large and small. You won't find a single one of our people that will disagree with my assessment, and I'm not even there.

But I know the Acehnese people, having lived among them for four years.

But, the government in Jakarta is a different story, and represents a different agenda. It is bureaucratic and political, corrupt and demogogic.

Right now, Jusuf Kalla is pandering to the lowest common denominator of human scum, the Islamist hateful moron, and he should be ashamed of himself.

Trust me when I say that Geroge Bush would be welcomed in Aceh like you wouldn't believe, but Jusuf Kalla would need a 24 hour a day bodyguard.

[broadsword]

they resent the help their hated enemy gave them.

That is the core of their hatred for us. The "holy" Koran constantly tells the Muslims that they are "the best of men", when, in fact, all of reality tells them that they are the worst of men, producing nothing but horrid, oppressive, disease-ridden backward gutter societies.

Any good thing we do for them will be met with the most violent and hatefull JEALOUSY.
They are compelled to destroy us, by their jealous hatred and by the "holy" Koran.