To: Mark Felton; Gengis Khan
People also forget that we have huge allies now in the region sicne the Iraq war began. In Pakistan we now have 3 new airbases. We have new bases in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Jordan (covert, SOF operational bases), Turkey, Kuwait, saudi Arabia (we will use these gain in event of regional war), Qatar, UAE, etc etc... India will also be supportive in a big big way that yet remains to be seen by the world. India is pretty mad at Pakistan right now. They are saying that Pakistan has ties to those who did the bombings yesterday. And they are probably right. Tensions will be very high for a while, and this might be the last straw for India. So we can not count on much from that area. All the former Soviet countries have been told by Russia to make us pull out. Some have already raised the rents for bases beyond what we will pay.
We are in a bit of pinch right now.
360 posted on
07/13/2006 3:20:43 PM PDT by
redgolum
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To: redgolum
it's like 1914 all over again.
367 posted on
07/13/2006 3:22:04 PM PDT by
jpsb
To: Mark Felton; Gengis Khan
372 posted on
07/13/2006 3:22:43 PM PDT by
redgolum
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