Relief As An Opportunity
Instapundit just expressed what I was thinking all day:

PHOTOS OF THE TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORT, released by the U.S. Navy, are available here. Such efforts are, as U.N. representative Jan Egeland noted this weekend, worth their weight in gold. More or less literally.

Not just for the karma. Not just for the people. Also PR. Hell, even Al-Jareeza is noticing:

Welcome assistance
Reaction was generally positive to the news of an American presence.

A wounded man gets medical treatment from Red Crescent "Praise God, they are coming to help us," said Munajar, a Banda Aceh clerk who like many Indonesians uses only one name. "We have been waiting for the international community to assist us and now they have come."