Overestimating your enemies

You have NO IDEA how confusing it was for kids in that area of the world when the US invaded Iraq. You had just enough awareness to pick up the popular narratives, but were too young to follow specifics.

The best analogy I can think of is that it was if you'd been hearing about the wild pig problem in Texas for a while, and all the steps Texas has taken to kill off the hogs. Then suddenly, all talk of the wild-pig wars start to include updates on some town in Alaska's bear-related problems. And it's not clear if everyone's confusing the bears for pigs, or if they wrongly think Alaska's got a feral hog problem, but suddenly everyone's focused on hog population control in Alaska.

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