Their unindicted co-conspirators, the Drive-by-Media, have largely swept this administration’s multitude of failures and gaffes under the rug. God help us, but all this may be about to change and the sheer incompetence with which Obama and his administration is stumbling through history could possibly and tragically crash down on us like a zillion tons of bricks and American blood.
History is about to crash on Obama and on us
The curt and unceremonious eviction of U.S. forces from our base in Uzbekistan, Karshi Khanabad airbase (better known as “K2” to U.S. forces) received less press than the installation of a new swing set and monkey bars on the White House lawn. This event’s importance, however, can hardly be underestimated. In between Wednesday belinis, Obama was busy shoving socialism down our throats while the Russians were handing out over two billion dollars in financing and “investments” to the Uzbekis.
During his February 3rd visit to Moscow, Uzbekistan’s President Kurmanbek Bakiev managed to secure a “US$300 million loan” to support Kyrgyzstan’s hard-pressed government budget plus a pledge of $1.7 billion in investment in the country’s energy industry. In addition, Moscow agreed to write off $180 million of Kyrgyz debt in return for a 48% stake in a defense industry factory plant that produces components for torpedoes, and offered additional financial assistance worth $150 million.”
Let’s get this straight! The Russians don’t need to invest $180 million dollars in an obsolete Uzbeki torpedo factory when their own factories are rusting out and their unemployment rate is over 8%. They sure as heck don’t need to invest $1.7B in Uzbeki oil fields when the world is awash in crude and OPEC is cutting production left and right. Sure it may be a good long-term investment, but at the very least the timing is questionable. And if the question is why are they making these investments now, the answer is to get themselves in a position of leverage in order to be able to manipulate the U.S. This, of course, begs the question: manipulate the US to do what?
On March 4th the first shipment of supplies went through Russian territories to our troops in Afghanistan.
Amateurs are concerned with tactics, professionals with logistics
The Obama administration is upping the ante in Afghanistan by increasing the U.S. troop presence by 17,000 additional troops. (For the record, that’s about half of what Patraeus and the theater commanders asked for.) So we are inserting the equivalent of another division into Afghanistan and we are counting on the beneficence of Vladimir Putin to be able to supply that division with a good part of their logistics. Oh yeah, that’s not a disaster waiting to happen.
Putin wants to even the score
A devoted communist, a dedicated KGB agent and fervent Soviet patriot, Putin, like all the Red Army, suffered deeply in the aftermath of their loss in Afghanistan. One can only imagine Putin’s blood boiling at the televised images of a hand full of U.S. agents and special forces troops mounting cavalry charges with a laptop strapped to the saddle and routing the Taliban in less time than anyone dared dream. (A great book on the beginning of the U.S. operations in Afghanistan is First In by Gary Schroen and I could not recommend it with higher accolades.)