Aceh is where the gas and oil fields are, along with a long-running Muslim insurgency.  If there were even one competent person in the WH or cabinet such a fact would be noted and acted upon.  

We can't expect Bush to act out of compassion or his supporters to want to spend more on foreign, heathen victims of a catastrophe than will be spent on the coronation of the divinely chosen one in DC in January. But their collective short-sightedness suggests a profound ignorance about the importance of Indonesia in the world-energy picture.  No surprise there.

Bush to world:  Apres moi, le deluge.