Imagine being there, having to wade through filthy water, cholera infection spreading through the air and water, the smell of rotting and burning bodies almost too much to bear, to drag supplies to victims, who considered you their enemy.
"Who considered their enemy"? What are you talking about?
I knew these people for years and lived among them. They most certainly did not consider me or any other American as their enemy.
Achenese are very open and accepting people. They are not Arabs.