For one thing, this is now "Obama's War," and the media doesn't stand to gain much unless it was pre-2009 and they could drape this incident around Bush's neck. Secondly, we are likely to learn some facts about the alleged perpetrator that will be a colossal embarrassment to the U.S. military and the Obama administration ... i.e., perhaps he had such obvious medical/psychiatric issues that any objective person would question why the hell he was in Afghanistan in the first place.
P.S. The Tiger Force incidents occurred before I was born ... so no, I'm not an old hippie. No offense taken!
That's what happens when you put a "community organizer" in the seat of the Leader of the Free World and the elitist defend him.
He doesn't look like Alfred E. Neuman for no reason.