They are...I have family in the area and they are young, affluent, Obama loving, clueless people...even served in the military and still clueless.
In the current military not hard to do. A pretty close friend who is a retired O-6 son enlisted in the Army and did a tour in Afghanistan. I takled to him a bit when he came back. Nice fellow . He was right in the heart of Pushtun country. His take was “Gee, those poor, poor people. They are so destitute no wonder they hate us and shoot at us all the time.” I tried to get him to understand that they were pathans, they like fighting, it is the best thing in life, they don't care about poverty although they do enjoy looting and stealing. He seemed really nonplussed. The natives were after all ‘poor people’.