COMPETENCE: Nightmare in Libya: Thousands of Surface-to-Air Missiles Unaccounted For. “The White House announced today it planned to expand a program to secure and destroy Libya’s huge stockpile of dangerous surface-to-air missiles, following an ABC News report that large numbers of them continue to be stolen from unguarded military warehouses.” A day late and a few billion dollars short.

Plus this: “Every time I arrive at one of these weapons facilities, the first thing we notice going missing is the surface-to-air missiles.”

UPDATE: A reader emails: “Do I understand correctly, that the best intel in Libya is ABC News? Dark times.”

MORE: Reader Donald Gately emails: “It’s probably nothing. I bet Eric Holder just sold them to Mexican gangs.”

Related thoughts: “They’ll turn up eventually. Around Heathrow, Sheremetyevo, Reagan National and LAX. And when they do, the question will be asked, ‘Why in the hell didn’t we blow these caches in place, when we were running around blowing the hell out of everything else?'”