Today we learn that the United States has agreed to more than triple the rent it pays for use of a key air base in Kyrgyzstan. Apparently the base is vital for Obama's "surge" in Afghanistan.
The accord comes just four months after the Kyrgs had ordered U.S. troops to leave their country. But that was then-- this now and $60 million a year sweeter.
So here we have President Obama, at a time when the U.S. economy is staggering upping the ante in the "War on Terror". You might therefore suspect that the banking Brahmins and their high priests on the Council for Foreign Relations are pressuring the new administration on Afghanistan. You'd probably be right.. but that does not mean the truth is fit for public consumption... after all, we voted out Cheney and his war-loving neocons! ... right?
*(update) The NYTimes reports that someone in the Justice Dept has slipped documents to the families of the 9-11 victims implicating the Saudi Royal family in the attacks. We'll wait and see how far the courts will go to cover up our own government's complicity.
"In a nutshell, we have to decide more precisely what is the objective of our involvement. Because we are increasingly running the risk of getting bogged down both in Afghanistan and in Pakistan in pursuit of objectives which we are lacking the power to reach ... The problem is the more we get involved in Afghanistan the more deeply we get involved in Pakistan as well."
That is what former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski told the Huffington Post.
The same Brzezenski that wrote this back in 1998: "It is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America."
and this: "For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.”
So has Brzezinski had a dramatic change of heart ... "seen the errors of his imperialist ways...?" On the surface one is tempted to say yes. Here is what he had to say about a potential Obama presidency: "There is a need for a fundamental rethinking of how we conduct world affairs.. and Obama seems to me to have both the guts and the intelligence to address that issue and to change the nature of America's relationship with the world."
A fractured, fractious world that looks much the way it does thanks to dear old Zibby.
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