[lbo-talk] Fwd: Afternoon Update: Upheaval in Kyrgyzstan as Leader Flees

[Bhaskar Sunkara]

I was going to comment earlier about how telling it was that the immediate
response to collapse of a dictatorial government among leftists was a
collective, "this must be the result of US imperialism." It's a sign of the
conservative nature of our times and I'm not faulting anyone individually
for it.

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:54 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:


> From the AP account:
>
> ...The opposition has called for the closure of the U.S. air base in Manas
> outside the capital of Bishkek that is a key transit point for supplies
> essential to the war in nearby Afghanistan...
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100408/ap_on_re_as/as_kyrgyzstan_protest
>
>
>
> On 4/7/10 6:02 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
>> If (big big IF there) this has anything to with machinations of a foreign
>> power, it was much more likely to have been China or Russia.
>>
> ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>