WTF ISTAN?
The “blogging” about Kyrgyzstan has left me with the impression that a bunch of phonies who know nothing need to talk about something obscure in order to validate themselves. Here’s my take, and it’s quick. This nothing country is situated next to both China and Russia and both of them regard this mouseocracy as their “sphere of influence.” Further, Kyrgyzstan is on top of a bunch of mountains, far far away from everybody, other than China and Russia. Russia and China don’t want democracy for Kyrgyzstan; the leadership of both countries fear freedom and democracy to say the least, and they aren’t about to allow a free pro U.S. country on their doorstep. This so-called revolution, the tulip revolution, is a leaderless bunch of conflicting tribal interests with the negative purpose of kicking a government out of office with no plan on what to do once they have succeeded.
OK, they have succeeded. Now what?
Like every other Muslim area in the world, Kyrgyzstan is nothing but lines on a map with a tribal population that can overflow to anywhere. The fact that they all wearing different tribal colored arm bands should give you an idea and there are at least twenty political parties there. Kyrgyzstan was a part of the old Soviet Union and Russia wants it back. Democracy? Give me a break. Both Russia and China are paranoid hard line dictatorships afraid they cannot stay in power. Any democracy on their borders is a threat to them. Any democracy is a threat to any dictatorship.
Our stated world wide purpose is now clear. Freedom. Period. Neither country will tolerate freedom.
Reality dictates that we can’t ignore things that happen in Kyrgyzstan We have a supply base there that supplies our forces in Afghanistan, but even more important, we have to keep Al Qaeda from forming another training base in the hundreds of hidden areas there. For this reason alone we want to stay there. Russia doesn’t want us there, fears us there, and wants us out, fearing that we will do “their” provence what Russia thinks we did to “their” Ukraine. Putin believes that we “stole” the Ukraine from him and he thinks we want to have a free election in Kyrgyzstan that will result in another pro-US government. Further, both the Chinese and the Russians regard everything in the area as “theirs.” China is involved because there is a Muslim Chinese provence on their border with Kyrgyzstan that is in open revolt against the Communist government. They feel we will support those Muslims in their fight for independence. So Kyrgyzstan is important because it affects these relations.
The “problem” is freedom, and as we have seen, freedom is a powerful lure for everyone on the planet, except the dictators. LATE ADD: This link from emailer J. Johnstone has very good background and history of country.
