Posted on 07/29/2005 11:30:15 PM PDT by HAL9000
With "friends" like these...
good , no problem , we should leave .
have fun with your economies !
The worms are turning...again...
Next time you have trouble...don't call us...we'll call you.
I'm actually rather surprised we got use of the bases in the first place. It's too bad this had to happen.
Well crap! There goes the great liberty in Karshi-Khanabad. Anyone know where you can find a light auburn haired camel with a lazy left eye that answers to the name Susie around here?
Zackly. All that American cash pumped into the economy..Also should cut off foreign aid. Vieques Island and the Phillipines found out the hard way. These leaders maybe shoulda done some more homework.
If we can't cooperate together, maybe we'll have better luck with a new regime in Uzbekistan.
I hope all US aid will leave with our airbase as well. This is the costliest decision the Uzbek government will ever make.
frankly I'd love to see a new US foreign policy in general ,
call it; whup ass and go on home ....We only have problems when we stay too long and it is rarely ever worth it.
This epitomizes the wisdom of Rumsfeld's "light and manueverable" US military strategy. Because our footprint in Uzbekistan was never large in the first place it will be capable of being absorbed into the Kyrgistan and elsewhere.
This is an inconvenience but it is not devastating.
Just think down the road if Iraq or Quatar says enough, and we leave. The wack'os will play it as they "kicked" us out. Sooner or later we have to leave them to their own country. Canada doesn't even want us to shoot missles down that are aimed at Canada.
We've had Germans and other friendlies stationed here for awhile, but if you get more than a few hundred, the "Art Bell" crowd starts to think UN takeover or something.
Uzbekistan is such a mixed bag - they fight the Islam extremists, unstable government, boil their enemies alive.....
Russians and or ChiComs are behind this.
In a place like that, it shouldn't be too hard to engineer a coup.
A lot to be said for that strategy.
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