It is very interesting how these events are affecting those of us here at home.
Compare this to how the media presented the soldiers in Vietnam killing innocent civilians. What the media never said was that many of these 'innocents' were carrying grenades into American camps, bombing restaurants where GIs would gather, hiding NVA in their villages, etc. My cousin served in SAR, and there was a young man who had been helping them in their camp for quite a while. He rode in one day, parked his bike and left, leaving a bomb to go off. After that, the guys were VERY unwilling to trust any Vietnamese. Since we didn't have reporters along with our soldiers for the most part then, most Americans didn't know about these instances until AFTER the war, and were told by the soldiers who were there.
With this war, we're learning about these duplicitious actions first hand from imbedded reporters, so we are much more aware of the things our guys have to face. There may be some innocents killed in the action, but not because our guys really WANT to kill them. This will only help in NOT branding our guys 'baby killers' etc. when the war is over.