.Future of Manas Airbase
"The sudden changes and unrest in Bishkek has to do a lot with Afghanistan. The American operation from Manas Airbase supplies NATO and the US troops in Afghanistan. Though Washington and Moscow have rejected a rivalry in Bishkek, but it has been the de facto root cause of all the sudden change. In February 2009 President Bakiyev announced to close the US Airbase and Moscow pledged $2.15 billion aid, but the American operation still continued. Then later Russian media started a criticism campaign against Bakiyev. The population in Central Asian countries are much influenced by the Russian media, mainly because of language and the curbs on local and international media in these former Soviet states. Later Moscow implemented custom duties on Russian gasoline and diesel exports to Kyrgyzstan. The prices went skyrocketing and fueled the flame of crisis and public unrest in Bishkek."
Kabul Prespective
Kabul Prespective
posted by madtom at 5:20 PM
4 Comments:
Mad Tom,
Once again this proves the need for the US to extricate themselves from having to field a massive military presence in Afghanistan.
Diana West has a great take down on on our "sheepish" military.
Rethinking extrajudicial killing: It's a slippery slope, but when Americans join al Qaeda, they should be eliminated, so, the best thing would be to establish a long list of special criteria for engaging in such a process, so it wouldn't be abused by future administrations who would be able to justify using it on we innocent Americans.
So we should just cede the Russians their "sphere of influence" and mind our own business. I wonder if you would agree to the reverse, shouldn't the US have a similar sphere? and wouldn't that sphere include Cuba and Venezuela?
Don't forget Chinas Taiwan and Singapore, or Egypt's and Jordan's Palestine. Then we can all live happily ever after.
Oh, in the future please add a link, remember that there are readers in the background that might not know who West is or how to get to her site, anyway I think she's wrong, sheep slaughtering goes way back and is much older than Islam, and I don't know, when in Rome...
The hit list thing is a very hard one. In one hand during a war the President has the upper hand, I would do nothing to weaken that. My complaints were really directed at the media, had Bush signed that order all hell would break out, O does it and it's like nothing happened. I just figured someone should say something. Sort of makes you wonder why this guy? What makes him so special.
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