American officials have lost track of tens of thousands of weapons intended for Afghan security forces, with some of the weapons heading to the Taliban, according to a government audit released Thursday. A Government Accountability Office audit found that inventory controls were lacking for around 87,000 of the 242,000 U.S.-procured weapons given to Afghan forces between 2004 and 2008. Additionally, reliable records were not kept for around 135,000 weapons donated from other NATO countries. Afghan forces "cannot fully safeguard and account for weapons. As a result, weapons [the U.S. military] has provided to [Afghan National Security Forces] are at serious risk of theft or loss," the GAO said.

Why is this not surprising? Does this mean that all of our weapons should have a self destruct mechanism so that when we give them to somebody, if they lose it, we can keep it from being used against us? What kinds of weapons are we giving the Afghan's that we need to worry about this? What the U.S. really needs to do is start doing more special operations type missions with specific targets. How bad canit be that the Taliban has some U.S. weapons?

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