The U.S. led ISAF forces in Afghanistan have trained the media to accept its ridiculous reporting. Whenever an Afghan policeman or soldier attacks or kills ISAF forces the press weasels just copy the ISAF headlines like this one:
3 American troops shot dead by man wearing Afghan uniform, US command says
A man in an Afghan uniform shot and killed three American troops Friday morning in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military command said, in the third attack on coalition forces by their Afghan counterparts in a week. The Taliban claimed the shooter joined the insurgency after the attack.
When it is clear that this was "by their Afghan counterparts" why doesn't the headline say "3 American troops shot dead by Afghan soldier"? CNN is especially pathetic:
Official: Man in Afghan security uniform kills 3 U.S. troops
A man in an Afghan military uniform killed three U.S. troops Friday in southern Afghanistan, the latest in a series of assaults against NATO soldiers by Afghans clad in security force garb.
There have been 24 such green on blue incidents in the last 12 month. In every case those were real Afghan soldiers or real Afghan policemen who attacked. To write as if those were people who just picked up a uniform at the bazaar is in no way justified.
The stupidity of these formulations clearly come into view when one changes the roles in these formulations:
Afghan soldier kills 3 in American security uniforms
An Afghan soldier killed three in American military uniforms Friday in southern Afghanistan, the latest in a series of assaults against men in NATO military uniforms by Afghan security forces.
No one would write such bullshit even though it reflects the facts just as well as the ISAF manipulated version copied by western media. This again shows how neutral reporting was buried by the "embedded with the military" mindset that came with the the twenty-first century.
