Can the US do math?

I was watching the news tonight, and there was all this talk about Afghanistan's 90th Independence Day celebration. Reporters stressed that violence and corruption have plagued the country since independence. These comments were paired with the news of opium production being at an all time high. I thought, "hm, let's do the math, and think about where we were as a country 90 years after independence."

1776 + 90= 1866

That puts us a year after the end of a civil war.

Our media is really lame right about now. There is no critical analysis of the information that is reported. I know you could argue that they are simply there to report and be impartial. However, I argue that such a position is false. The decision to run a story- to deem it as important enough to spend time on- is a bias. The questions that are asked (or not asked), and the perspectives that are presented are all biased. That is the nature of the beast. Therefore, the "leap" to consider where we were as a country 90 years out from independence as we sit in judgment of (i.e. report on) another country in the same position does not feel to me like too much to ask.