"Ordinary Afghans" just want a permanent American occupation: the journalism of "Ernesto Londoño

Until the very last day of US occupation of Vietnam, US media carried stories about how "ordinary Vietnamese" really want an eternal American occupation of the country.  When collaborators, killers, and agents of the American occupations were readying to flee the country, running for their lives, they were taken by US media as representative of the Vietnamese people.  Similarly, in writing about Cuba during and after the Revolution, US media chose to base their reportage on Cuba on the criminals, pornographers, casino owners, pimps, and killers of the Batista regime.  This same genre of colonial journalism is at play these days about Afghanistan.  Look at this lousy article, how it extrapolates the fears of the henchmen and crooks of the American occupation on the population of Afghanistan at large:  "but the prospect that support could now be yanked abruptly at the end of 2014 has heightened fears, ordinary Afghans say."  Notice that "ordinary Afghans" are presented as a political party speaking on behalf of the entire population of Afghanistan, and only a sample of the views of a handful of the puppets and crooks of American occupation suffices.