Do you notice how the US description of mass murders in Afghanistan is in the passive voice, avoids blaming the terrorists who commit those murders, and then shifts rapidly to criticisms of the Afghan government? https://bit.ly/3o099ZW 

It is a perverse form of what psychologists call identification with the aggressor.  It is also consequential as officials in Washington and pundits on the Sunday shows avoid talking about these enemies of all civilized peoples.

From Battlegrounds: “The lack of understanding…led to the paradox of excessive sympathy for the Taliban and disregard for…courageous Afghans: soldiers, police, students, journalists, and government officials…”

“Those who claim piety not only commit the most heinous acts of violence, but also run an immense and profitable criminal enterprise that enriches its leaders who live in comfortable compounds in Pakistan.”

“Their children go to private schools there while they bomb girls’ schools in Afghanistan.”
Battlegrounds, pp. 194-195.