I have a feeling if it was some cowboy wedding with people shooting their guns off into the air it wouldn't have been seen as the same kind of threat.

This isn't a wartime mistake. The people who made it aren't living on their nerves in fear of imminent death.

There was a short war in Afghanistan, but that's over. There's a regime in place which is at least in some ways better than the Taliban, and it's not too stable, and the aim of the outside military presence is supposed to be to help it get more stable - and this kind of thing is the best possible way to destabilise it.

And you can guarantee there are now people out there with guns, and a determination to carry out blood vengeance form these killings of relatives. (Just as there probably would be if it had been a cowboy wedding and something like that had happened.)

Did any US flags fly at half mast today because of this? That's not a rhetorical question - it would have been the humane and reasonable thing to do, and there are a lot of humane and reasonable Americans.

Pedantic NB - Afghani is not an offensive word so far as I know. It's in no way analogous to Paki in that respect. It's more like Israeli.