I wouldn't want to be the guy at Langley who has to explain how the 'Company' didn't have any people on the ground trying to influence Kyrgyz politics while a major supply route of the Long War was at stake...
On 4/7/10 11:18 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
> 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.