The war in Afghanistan inspired countless cultural artifacts, from movies to television to music. One in particular — a sketch from Saturday Night Live shortly after Sept. 11 that skewered pro-war elites — was recently portrayed on social media as actually being pro-war itself.

NPR’s Arts Desk reporter Andrew Limbong looks at how satire’s relationship with the war in Afghanistan has changed, and how it hasn’t, through the lens of one sketch.

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