[Elwood P. Doud]

You must have to REALLY be on someone’s sh!t list to be named ambassador to Kyrgystan.

[kabar]

That won’t be her last ambassadorship. Usually, you get one of these posts and then move on to a bigger one if you are a career foreign service officer. And this is actually a pretty important medium sized post given our need for a logistics base to support the war in Afghanistan.

[kabar]

Transit Center at Manas (formerly Manas Air Base and unofficially Ganci Air Base) is a United States military installation at Manas International Airport, near Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, primarily operated by the U.S. Air Force.