Quote Originally Posted by Fuchs View Post

Btw, Pakistan is a ManPADS producer and the ISI could easily have slipped some of them into AFG if it had deemed it worthwhile.
As I said, weak states are easily deterred from such behavior. Pakistan has interests that it leverages the Taliban to service. But it has interests it leverages its relationship with the US to service as well. They will not lightly make the decision to bite that hand. They rationalize their support of the Taliban, I suspect, as being exempt from being a bite of the US hand. After all, we don't need to be in Afghanistan by their estimation, but they do.

Weapons captured by Libyan freedom fighters and sold to AQ are another story altogether. Such weapons are outside the state system, and thereby outside the system of state deterrence.

I don't figure that Libya would have highend systems, but I do not know what equally vulnerable states with much closer relationships to the US might have.