"Cultural sensitivity key to U.S. role in Afghanistan" - what cultural sensitivity?

Honestly, CNN, what are you doing? What is this cultural sensitivity you speak of? Everyone knows that foreign soldiers hardly ever care about the people of the country they're invading, with hardly any exceptions, including the current war in Afghanistan. The current war is hardly the beginning of cultural insensitivity.

And then I read the article.

The title is completely misleading. The article isn't about the current (or past) cultural sensitivity, but the need for future cultural sensitivity. But it seems that teaching this is an impossible task. How can you educate soldiers about the complex culture of any of the countries they're "defending their country from"? The respect that will be required for this will give them a connection with the people; and this will create a connection with the people that will quite possibly hinder their mental training in other areas. Soldiers are taught to do as their told, not questioning it or using their own morals to judge the actions. When a connection is created with the people, the soldier will bring their own morals in and will not be willing to mistreat the people.

According to the article, the current cultural advisors to the military have hardly even experienced the culture - they were educated in the US. Even if these advisors spent some time immersed in another culture, it would still not know all there is to know.  If the US government were to employ people born and raised in the culture in question, the expertise would be so much greater and more accurate. The idea that having US born-and-raised citizens advising our country about the cultures of other countries, in order to help us and our interactions with foreign countries, is a little scary.