Did Curiosity land on Mars... or in Afghanistan?

Military reporter and photojournalist Michael Yon notes today how the surface of Mars captured in this photo from NASA bears a striking resemblance to the bleak landscape of Afghanistan:

Curiosity did not land on Mars, but in the Dasht-i-Margo (Desert of Death) Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.  This looks amazingly like Afghanistan, including two small IED craters on the left-front.