LOL. I reckoned you probably didn't. I was in Belgium right after GWB started the 2nd Iraq campaign. It was getting a little hinky as most American businesses were recalling a lot of their folks in Europe to avoid any "issues". I was on a two week trip to the factory and told my boss "No worries, I'm fine."
In the pub by our hotel in Kortrijk, some guys started giving me grief. One of them said to the affect of "Your president is nothing but a cowboy!" I told him "Hold on there hoss. In my country we like our cowboys. We ride horses, we don't eat them!"
Then I ripped into them about King Leopold and the Congo, or the "Belgian Congo". "We've never enslaved a country for their diamonds and chocolate!" When they sat there stunned that I even knew about that, I told them "Boys, some of us actually study history, we don't all sit around reading comic books all day!".
The girls sitting with us started laughing at them, they got pissed and left, and I made out ok. Man that was a great trip. And I do love history. 😁
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