You know, I can be so cynical. When I saw the hubub in the blogosphere around this week's Newsweek cover featuring "Losing Afghanistan" around the world and "My Life in Pictures" -- a story on photographer Annie Leibovitz -- in the U.S., I thought that it had to be some sort of prank. But sweet Mary in the morning, no. I hopped over to the Newsweek International site and they've got the covers displayed right there -- as they are below, except that I've got them horizontal instead of vertical for easy viewing. As if they don't even know to be be embarassed by this:

And we wonder why things are as they are. Sometimes the only thing to do in a situation like this is to quote John Kennedy:

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Yep.