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I feel sorry for the soldiers who did this; it's not their failure but a failure of policy. There needs to be a clearly defined relationship between the media (not just the embedded media) and armies with well defined policies and conventions. The trouble would be army commanders who created policies so unnecessarily strict as to effectively "ban" the world's media from an area of global interest. People should react to something like that with outrage.
It's a pity we live in an age where people seem to only react strongly to images. A wordsmith correspondent sans camera crew could do a great public service in a war zone and any group of soldiers who mistook his pen and notepad for a gun would rightly be hung out to dry.
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