I'm surprised, but also dismayed that I'm surprised because this should have been obvious.
Americans tend to blow up their own problems to epic proportions (the kind such as "The entire world should know about this") and yet don't give a fuck about anyone else's problems except Israel.
This also makes me realize that, perhaps from the viewpoint of the Afghanistan civilians, they were being invaded by a whole bunch of foreigners for something they didn't even know about. That makes an already terrible war even more terrible.