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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Uzbek votes to expel U.S. troops
2005-08-26
Posted by:God Save The World

#3  Moose,

I thought the Uzbek terrorists in Pakistan and elsewhere are Uzbek citizens and are terrorists due to blessings from the Uzbek govt?

Are you saying that the Uzbek's have an internal jihadi problem without support from their govt? Or have they, just now realizing, they've allowed the existence of a internally germinated monster without resistance, and now want to kill it off before it spreads?
Posted by: Poison Reverse   2005-08-26 12:06  

#2  There might be more to this than meets the eye. Take the basic situation: a country led by a strongman, but filled with hostile Islamists.

The strongman would *like* to support the US, but he *must* use brutality on the Islamists, which is inherently embarassing to the US. So I picture him asking us to leave for the time being, then he utterly, if quietly, kicks seven bells out of the Islamists. Then, after a while, we have some more negotiations, and the Uzbeks invite us back.

Now granted, this is a hypothetical. But if what I suspect is true, his secret police are going to soon be rounding up hundreds or thousands of bad boyz and disappearing them. This will only be noticed in a few humanitarian websites, where it will be bitterly condemned. However, the end result will be good for the entire region in general, Uzbekistan and the US in particular.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-08-26 11:31  

#1  Good move boys, your list of friends is growing short.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2005-08-26 10:05  

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