They should have mailed them to the Marx Brothers
I think we can all agree by now that the war in Iraq was defined by incompetence, hubris, stupidity, and corruption. Remember this?
The US has lost track of about 190,000 weapons issued to Iraqi security forces since the 2003 invasion, some of which will have ended up in the hands of insurgents, according to an official report published in Washington. Among the missing items are AK-47 rifles, pistols, body armour and helmets.
Still, life’s a learning curve, isn’t it? Once we re-trained our sights on Afghanistan, our leaders and tacticians could obviously be expected to have learned from their experiences and mistakes made in Iraq, couldn’t they?
Oh. No, no they couldn’t…
The US military has failed to keep track of thousands of weapons shipped to Afghanistan, leaving them vulnerable to being lost or stolen, a report says.
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It found that, in the four years up to June 2008, the US military failed to keep complete records on some 222,000 weapons entering the country.
Ladies and gentlemen, the world’s only superpower.
Posted on February 13th, 2009 at 8:49am under Afghanistan, Iraq, T.W.A.T., US Politics
For “has failed to”, read “didn’t want to”.
So, let me see, we’ve got the occupying power handing out guns willy-nilly, and several bunches of assorted goons murdering and torturing people left, right and centre. Many of those goons have received arms and training from the occupying power. What was that phrase again? Oh yes, “the Salvador Option”…
Something tells me this shit is anything but accidental. It’s not incompetence, it’s not stupidity, and it’s not corruption – it’s a calculated and deliberate strategy. It might “be a little obvious to fence off all the slums / Hand out machine guns to the poor in the projects / And watch them kill each other off” (as Jello Biafra once put it) in the US, but that’s exactly what’s going on in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yes, I’m aware of Hanlon’s Razor, but there comes a time when the pattern becomes too clear to be denied any longer.
The brain dead pseudo leftists on huffingtonpost et al are positively giddy at the thought the bush admin ‘lost’ these weapons, the notion that they’re supplying terrorists again just doesn’t occur to them. If you mention the northern alliance or the MEK their eyes just glaze over and they start blathering on about joe the plumber.
Or in the words of a CIA officer delivering a briefing to US soldiers in Woody Allen’s Bananas – ‘this time we’re backing the rebels and the government – so we can’t lose.’