Deja Vu, U.S. Weapons Fall into the Hands of Insurgents Fighting U.S. Forces

From the May 20th edition of the New York Times:
Arms Sent by U.S. May Be Falling Into Taliban Hands

KABUL — Insurgents in Afghanistan, fighting from some of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, have managed for years to maintain an intensive guerrilla war against materially superior American and Afghan forces.

But military officials, arms analysts and dealers say it points to a worrisome possibility: With only spotty American and Afghan controls on the vast inventory of weapons and ammunition sent into Afghanistan during an eight-year conflict, poor discipline and outright corruption among Afghan forces may have helped insurgents stay supplied.

Left-Wing Wacko Commentary:

If any of this sounds familiar, there have been previous stories about this sort of thing occurring in the Iraq war as well. I am skeptical that the blame can be placed solely on Afghan or Iraqi "corruption". But it is noteworthy that U.S. imperialist forces are aligned with probably significant numbers of people who really don't believe in the cause that they are allegedly being supported in.

You know how right-wing ideologues always have complaints about why various U.S. war efforts go poorly? You know, things like "Our troops have to fight the enemy with one arm tied behind their backs" and which it is usually implied that it is liberal Democrats, or "political correctness" that has done the arm tyeing? Then there is the blaming of the allegedly "liberal" mainstream media or the American anti-war movement that in some way or the other has undermined the war effort. This rhetoric has been commonplace both during the Vietnam era and today during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Remember this story when you hear this bullshit in the future. A good rebuttal will be to remind the right-wing ideologue that the U.S. military was arming its own enemies! Ahh, the follies of empire!