The Crown Jewel of Central Asia

Where and why, do you ask?

"Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation that hosts an American air base critical to the battle against the Taliban.... the facility is a staging post for American troops entering and exiting Afghanistan.... the base also acts as a giant gas station"

And it is SMACK DAB in the MIDDLE of all those ENERGY RESOURCES of Central Asia!

What a COINCIDENCE, huh?

"Kyrgyzstan breakdown a US problem" by Andrew Higgins, Washington Post | September 1, 2010

Ah! The CIA'S newspaper!

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Beset by mounting casualties on the battlefield and deepening disquiet at home over America’s longest war, President Obama’s Afghan policy now faces another big headache: the unraveling of central authority in Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation that hosts an American air base critical to the battle against the Taliban.

Deepening disquiet.

We are angry as hell and want the damn things ended right now, WaPo!

Can't you tell by my strident and pained commentaries?

Just a month after agreeing to extend for a year a $60 million lease on a US Air Force base here, Kyrgyzstan’s generally pro-Western but increasingly impotent president, Roza Otunbayeva, has retreated from US-backed security programs that Washington hoped would help fortify a fragile Kyrgyz government. These include a counterterrorism and antinarcotics training center and an international police mission.

There is your first distortion and lie.

They came to power by sacking our man and threatened the air station.

You can already see the slanted, agenda-pushing tone this article is taking.

The government’s paralysis, most notable in its inability to control truculent Kyrgyz nationalists in the south of this former Soviet republic, does not pose any immediate physical threat to the US base, about 20 miles from Bishkek, the capital, in the north.

Yeah, those "nationalists" are the CIA-SUPPORTED forces raising hell in the south!

And the REAL THREAT is the GOVERNMENT POSSIBLY THROWING OUT the United States. That is why the WaPo and Globe is furnishing you with this piece of propaganda.

But it does raise the prospect of prolonged and possibly bloody clashes ahead and strengthens forces inimical to Washington’s interests in the region....

Wrong, wrong, wrong!

If there is CHAOS then the attention is taken OFF the BASE!

If there is PEACE then it is TIME for Amerika to LEAVE!!

Are AmeriKa's top news organizations s*** or what?

Otunbayeva, a former Kyrgyz ambassador to Washington, came to power in April after the country’s second “revolution’’ in five years and had been seen by Western capitals as the best hope for a restoration of stable, democratic rule. Instead, the government she heads has been hobbled by crisis, most notably a June explosion of ethnic violence between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the southern cities of Osh and Jalalabad. The official death toll is nearly 400. Many more are thought to have died.

Related:

"Maksat Zheinbekov, the acting mayor of Jalal-Abad, said in a telephone interview that Bakiyev’s supporters in his home region started the riots by attacking both Uzbek and Kyrgyz.... Local police officials also have said that relatives of Bakiyev have been spotted leading Kyrgyz mobs and distributing weapons."

And CUI BONO, 'eh?

Related: Kyrgyz Concentration Camps Expand As Crisis Calms Down

Don't read anything about those anymore, either.

In a humiliating blow to the president’s authority, the mayor of Osh, a rabble-rousing Kyrgyz nationalist hostile to what he sees as foreign interference, last week defied an order that he give up his post. “I am going nowhere,’’ the mayor, Melis Myrzakmatov, told supporters at a late-August rally.

Yeah, just ignore the U.S. backing, readers.

A minister from Bishkek sent to calm the crowd was roughed up and fled the city.

“The president has lost face and also power,’’ said one Western official. “This is a catastrophe.’’

The US base outside Bishkek, operated by the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing, plays a central role in Obama’s Afghan surge. It “is critical to all our mission sets’’ in Afghanistan and is “the crown jewel of Central Asia,’’ said Colonel Dwight C. Sones, base commander, in an interview.

Located at Bishkek’s Manas International Airport, the facility is a staging post for American troops entering and exiting Afghanistan. In May it handled a record 55,000 transiting troops. The base also acts as a giant gas station, with a fleet of KC-135 aero-tankers that are sent into the sky over Afghanistan. Through in-flight refueling, these tanker planes provide gas for about a third of all US air operations inside Afghanistan.

Related: The $9 Billion Dollar Fuel Bill

All so we can drop bombs and missiles on people that never did anything to us, America.

Set up in December 2001, the base was originally called the Ganci Air Base in honor of Peter J. Ganci, the New York fire chief killed in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but last year its name was changed to the Manas Transit Center, partly in deference to Moscow’s concerns of a US military presence on former Soviet territory.

I know it is just me; however, I'm offended by naming these bases after 9/11 heroes who were lied to by this government.

And the OTHER THING is the CHAOS and INSTABILITY keeps the RUSSIANS ATTENTIVE to the situation -- tying up troops just in case an attack on Iran is ordered.

And CUI BONO again?

The International Crisis Group report warned that the withering of central authority, particularly in the south, emboldens organized crime, and may increase the appeal of militant Islam to minority Uzbeks, who suffered most during the June violence.

PFFFFFT!

So WHEN is the CIA MOVING THEM in there, WaPo?!

If anyone would know, you would!

And who fed you these distortions and obfuscations, AmeriKan newspaper readers?

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