OK, so the Kyrgyz Parliament has kicked the U.S. military out of the Manas airbase logistics hub. It’s not over, do you understand? Do you get it? Nothing’s official? What do you mean, calm down? I AM CALM–
I’m Bryan Whitman, all right? I’m the spokesman for the frigging More…
I didn’t get many specifics from Pentagon when I asked about alternatives to the soon-to-be-lost Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan for resupplying U.S. troops in Afghanistan. And when I asked experts like John Pike and Vikram Singh about using the Dushanbe airport in nearby Tajikistan, the response I got More…
When I started calling around Tuesday to the Departments of State and Defense about the prospective loss of Kyrgyzstan’s Manas air base, the critical facility for air-based resupply of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, I got pretty uniform answers. It’s not definite. We haven’t heard anything official. Negotiations are ongoing. More…
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