Do you really think Ukraine being featured prominently in American news, pop culture, political discourse, and zeitgeist in general for the past two and a half years hasn’t affected those numbers? You would not have used Ukraine in this example had it not been for the current conflict. To use numbers from ten years ago is a deliberate misrepresentation of reality.
Like I said: “I’d suspect the numbers would still be worse than they should be”
But also, you’re doing it again. You’re saying “despite the latter [Afghanistan] lasting 20 years,” but dude you linked images from 2006. It hadn’t been 20 years yet. In fact, that data is from nearly 20 years ago!
That is, again, extremely misleading data to support the argument you’re making.
There was those great videos of a presenter asking people on the street to point out various countries on a world map that didn’t have the country names.
Do you really think Ukraine being featured prominently in American news, pop culture, political discourse, and zeitgeist in general for the past two and a half years hasn’t affected those numbers? You would not have used Ukraine in this example had it not been for the current conflict. To use numbers from ten years ago is a deliberate misrepresentation of reality.
Americans couldn’t find Iraq and Afghanistan on maps during those wars despite the latter lasting 20 Years and Americans being involved in them.
https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/file/Roper-Poll-2006-Highlights.pdf
Why is it different today?
Like I said: “I’d suspect the numbers would still be worse than they should be”
But also, you’re doing it again. You’re saying “despite the latter [Afghanistan] lasting 20 years,” but dude you linked images from 2006. It hadn’t been 20 years yet. In fact, that data is from nearly 20 years ago!
That is, again, extremely misleading data to support the argument you’re making.
I literally asked why it is different today from 2006.
How is that misleading?
I made no attempt to hide it was from 2006.
It’s also a question you didn’t answer. So it’s pretty rich to suggest I’m the one being dishonest here.
There was those great videos of a presenter asking people on the street to point out various countries on a world map that didn’t have the country names.
Answers were… interesting, to say the least.