An American hero?

Abbas sent me this:  "Hey As'ad, look how the American media is making a hero out of an American kid who was found to be fighting alongside Libyan rebels. Imagine if an American was found to be fighting along with Palestinian fighters. He'd be called an American Taliban. But wait, that has already happened (to Adam Shapiro).  The story is inaccurate too. There are many American kids fighting in Libya. They're just not white."