Monday May 28, 2012

U.S. considering Uzbekistan as backup base

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    adaydream

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said it was troubling but would not impede U.S. plans to expand its military presence in Afghanistan.

    She needs to be concerned with the war in Afghanistan going to escalate and Kyrgyzstan's cooporation waning. < :-)

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    Betzee

    Uzbek is now a language offered to those training for jobs in intelligence so I'm not surprised to read this. Yet Karimov has a terrible human rights record so it's a little awkward to form an alliance with his regime to spread freedom elsewhere. On the other hand, if we don't snap him up the Chinese and Russians will, and not just for strategic reasons, he's sittin' on a ton of natural gas.

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