After I finished my last post, I started thinking about the fact that both articles mentioned were from February and that at this point, the U.S. has probably already settled on an agreement with Uzbekistan, so in the interest of keeping up with the blog posts, I did some additional searching and found an article that addressed the issue. This article was from February 25th, and it confirmed that a deal had in fact been reached between Uzbekistan and Nato. With this agreement, the U.S. (and any other country associated with Nato for that matter) is able to transport non-military supplies through Uzbekistan as the last leg of a journey through Russia and Kazakhstan, on the way to Afghanistan.
The article also mentioned that there was a possibility of Russia allowing the U.S. to transport weapons across their territory at some point in the future, which I thought was surprising because the other articles had suggested that Russia was not happy with the U.S. presence so close to them at the base in Kyrgyzstan, so it seems strange that they would be considering giving the U.S. permission to use their land to move any supplies at all. Anyway, I just wanted to post some updated information because after I thought more about it, I realized that my last post didn't cover as much as it should have.
This is the link for the article on the Nato-Uzbekistan agreement:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=385&sid=1610049
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It is really nice to see that someone else is actually writing some things that are related to our class, because if we don't who will? Well other than that I do think that it is interesting to see that these weapons transports may be something that become an issue in the future. I just wonder if the way that we will see it on the news will be the same way that it is being written online, or if the different media outlets will frame this in a way that changes the way it really is. I guess we will have to wait and see. Let It Be Known.
ReplyDeleteI just watched a movie about the military-industrial complex released a few years back called WHY WE FIGHT for my COMM 229 class--It's clear that the "great game" seems to continue in a different guise, yeah? Here's a part of the world that we all know just about all our friends and colleagues know nothing about, and here's NATO moving around bases for Afghanistan operations in the neighborhood....
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