--- Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... or should be.
>
> Travus T. Hipp cabalenews at aol.com talked
> up the 'stans this morning in his commentary.
>
FWIW I was present and a somewhat amusing conversation on the base-withdrawal ultimatum between a Russian and an Uzbek acquaintance of mine that went something liek this:
RUS: Cool. The Amerivans are leaving.
UZ: No way. Karimov has fucked us again. That base is protecting Uzbekistan from the Wahhabis. They cut womens' throats. That base leaving is bad news.
RUS: (Gets huffy.) Hey, are you implying Russia's not powerful enough to protect you or something?!?
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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