August 01, 2005
With Friends Like These…
Last month I said it was time to dump “our bastard” Islam Karimov, thug-in-chief of Where-the-Hellistan (that would be Uzbekistan for those of you familiar with Central Asia) for machine-gunning dissidents. Nathan Hamm, the go-to man on all things –stan in the blogosphere, said we should wait for him to dump us.
Well, he finally dumped us. Officially.
Posted by Michael J. Totten at August 1, 2005 09:30 PMComments
Good riddance (officially) Karimov.
And hello Kyrgyzstan!
Posted by: TallDave at August 2, 2005 06:18 AMNeedless to say, I'm pretty happy with the way things worked out. I think this dramatically increases the chances that the US and EU will seek to punish and isolate Karimov.
Posted by: Nathan at August 2, 2005 10:27 AM
