Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 26, 2017

Miss Nouri is now a staff member at the National Security Council.

Looks like she grew up and changed her name to Kellyanne Conway.

Served in ‘Nam with some guys from the tiger division. If Trump ran into these guys from the SOUTH, he’d realy freak if thinking the northerners are more dangerous.

Current version is conservative trolls who don’t know Iran & ISIS hate one another even more than they hate us.

I will confess geography was never my strong suit. I have a globe made in the year I was born. It sits next to me at my computer, and I look at it and refer to it from time to time. The type is so small that I now need a magnifying glass to read it. And still I’ m bad at geography. I doubt I could pick out Korea on an unmarked map of the world. The USA would be a piece of cake.

Come on, Girl: Google it. Everybody else does… (Yes yes yes, I know it is a D.Classic)

Still horrifyingly relevant…………………………………………………….

“It’s south of Russia and north of Antarctica, now can I go, I’m late for an engineering class!”

Sad the schooling going on these days. Many countries have changed since I was a kid, and new countries have sprung up, but the world is the same. Just mud and water

Boy, is SHE ever qualified to work in the Drumpf “administration”!

Read an article about a teacher who was teaching adults to read. She was planing a trip and pulled out a map during a break (before GPS). Her class was fascinated by the map, they couldn’t conceive of using one or that they existed. Map reading became part of the course.

He is fighting a losing battle.

He hasn’t started fighting yet; he’s just assessing the situation and the “troops”.

Knowing where a country is strikes me as irrelevant. Buy a ticket, get on the plane, and presto, you’re there. Take some selfies, get back on the plane, and bam! you’re home again. Not as hard as it used to be when you had to climb in a covered wagon and beat some mules.

Trump U, right?

“War is G_d’s way of teaching geography to Americans.”

—Attributed to Ambrose Bierce and Mark Twain. Feel free to pick your favorite.

Looks like Trudeau recycled the guy barely in shot for college Jeff a few years later.

The real problems arose when Europeans after WW I, and again in Africa in the post-empire period after WW II, drew all the “National” boundary lines on the maps and land, with absolutely no consideration of ethnic, racial, tribal, or religious lines of the occupants, OR the geography as in land forms, water sources, and natural resources present or absent. War became popular internally as well as externally with the results. As with Trump and the current administration, ignorance was, and is again, bliss.

Korea? It’s the peninsula jutting out of China, just west of Japan. There are two Koreas, one capitalist, one communist, one nice and one mean, one fat and one lean. One of them has Samsung, the other has Kim-Jong-Un. One has a lot of food, the other has none. One is a winner, the other’s a bum. One has a future, the other is done.

Boom!!! Gold star!!!!

Yes, Korea blew up billions of years ago and now it’s a bunch of rocks between Mars and Jupiter.

Do you men you people actually remember all of this? This was, after all, the 80’s in the last century.

Korea is the magic land inside the wardrobe in the nursery. Maybe behind the credenza.

Miss Nouri?