One suspects that Der Spiegel was trying to insult us with this cover. They must be particularly concerned about “der Schwartzes” Rice and Powell. (For the German-language challenged, here’s a rough translation: It’s from the magazine Der Spiegel (The Mirror). The headline is “The Warriors of Bush” or “Bush’s Warriors.” The subhead is “America’s Campaign Against Evil” or, to keep the articles straight, “America’s Campaign Against the Evil Ones.”)

But it misfired. One would infer from all their whining that they think that it’s a bad thing, but I think it’s kind of cool, and I’ll bet a lot of Americans, if they saw it, would say “Damn straight!” I particularly like amazon Condi Rice.

It is a literally graphic example of the difference between American and German (elite) thought processes.