The tone in my post was that way because I'm simply fed up. After a single tour in Iraq and two in Afghanistan, I've gone above and beyond to get through to the people there and the overall success is very limited because both the Afghans and Iraqis are lazy and weak people.
Why did I call the camera guy an idiot? Simple. Because he is an absolute idiot. That's what happens when you chase insurgents around with a camera in the middle of a hot-bed neighborhood with Apache helicopters blantantly flying around in circles. It has nothing to do with the fact that he is an Iraqi. I spent hours in sporadic and scary firefights providing security for an American news anchor who was hit by an IED and was nearly killed (Woodruff).
I'm not going to be nice and pleasent because its the nice and pleasent thing to do. The people of Afghanistan (and I'll single them out because we are still there) are ungrateful, lazy sacks of shit for the most part. That being said, I see flares of potential with their Army and some civilians who have the brains to see that living without the Taliban is a good thing.