Here’s a hilarious montage of a typical Newsweek cover in the rest of the world and then the US, hiding from tender eyes the fact that the federal government is losing (make that: has lost) its war of aggression on Afghanistan. And on the Taliban, see Fred Reed today:

I cannot endorse the politics of the Taliban. If one of them told me that my daughter couldn’t go to school, one of us would leave the room on a stretcher. Yet as fighting men, are they not magnificent? They have only rifles, explosives, RPGs, and balls. Their enemies have unlimited air support, helicopters, armor, artillery, sophisticated communications, night-vision gear, good food and excellent medical care. The Taliban take heavy casualties, their enemies almost none. The ragheads do not even have PX privileges. Yet they have not been defeated. A fight on even terms would last perhaps five minutes.

This, for a trillion dollars.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.