Holy shit, me in the Bush era. I wasn't THIS good at it at the time, that was high school ish. Canadian but I recall being shown a documentary in the 9th grade that was clearly propaganda attempting to justify our military presence in Afghanistan simply by pointing out everything wrong with the Taliban (which kept autocorrecting on my phone to Italian and it made me laugh)which was of course bad but my family has collected national geographic magazine since they were first published and I was reading em and was aware of the Soviet Afghan war and the mujahadeen already and my folks kinda filled.in they were the same guys and holy fuck did I get yelled at for pointing it out. Also this post reminded me that collection has been sitting at my grandma's house, he's been dead for 5 years and she's not reading em, gives me an excuse to visit my grandma and I get literally every national geographic until like 2004