Just When You Thought The World Might Actually Be A Safe Place…

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Fox News reported yesterday that 20,000 portable, heat-seeking missiles appear to have vanished from an Army warehouse in Libya.

The article reports:

The new revelations stoke ongoing fears that such weapons, which are light, relatively easy to use and have the capacity to take down a commercial airplane, could end up in the wrong hands as the Libyan war that ousted Muammar Qaddafi winds down.

The wrong hands????? Do we know who the right hands are? One of the problems in ‘freeing’ Libya from Muammar Qaddafi is that we are not sure of the backgrounds of the people we are supporting in the effort to oust Qaddafi. Some of the people we are handing weapons to are the same people who were shooting at us in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years. We have no guarantees that a new government in Libya will be any more democratic or friendly to the west than the old one. Meanwhile, we seem to have lost some heat-seeking missiles. Great.

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