Colin Powell [3] said U.S. aid to tsunami-stricken countries "does give the Muslim world and the rest of the world an opportunity to see American generosity, American values in action. ... I hope that, as a result of our efforts, as a result of our helicopter pilots' being seen by the citizens of Indonesia helping them, that value system of ours will be reinforced." The editor of Beirut's The Star disagreed [4]: "To think that aid would make people overlook all the other reasons to criticize the U.S. - it's naive, it's racist, it's almost insulting." In the Indonesian province of Aceh [5], "Australian journalists who witnessed a confrontation between Indonesian soldiers and alleged separatists [6] ... were ordered to leave the area and warned not to report on the incident." One commander told the journalists [7], "Your duties here are to observe the disaster, not the conflict [8]."