Before my current occupation, I spent some years deployed in a few tin-pot countries around the world ("Upper Volta with Rockets" being one) working extensively with the US Military and State Department, often 24/7 in some sh*th*le with nobody but Middle ranking field guys to keep me company.
Whilst I met many good decent people, I often found that the inbred american conviction "we are always right" damned irritating. It was almost an evangelical philosophy. We are superior, just trust us and we will make it all right.
That, and a complete lack of regard to cultural sensitivity, verging on some occasions on the catastrophic made me glad I got out of that scene.
Soon as I heard about this incident I just knew you boys had to be involved. Nothing personal here.