The public learned a few things watching Thursday’s presidential debate. We learned, for instance, that President Trump actually has an attention span and can avoid yelling and interrupting his debate opponent for 90 minutes. We learned that Joe Biden thinks Trump lives on another planet when the president rattles off statistics about everything from the economy to solar energy.

Unfortunately, voters also learned that the media do a terrible job when it comes to focusing any attention at all on the world outside of the United States. We are so self-absorbed about the daily political intrigue at home that we can’t even bother to acknowledge the thousands of U.S. troops who are deployed in multiple war zones at any given time. Indeed, turning off the TV after the debate, you could forgive the average person for thinking the war in Afghanistan is over, military involvement in Syria was a thing of the past, and that American pilots weren’t launching air and drone strikes in Somalia.