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To: maceng2 who wrote (15715)	1/7/2002 8:40:22 AM
From: SirRealist	Respond to of 281500

Out in 6 months? No way. Anyone catch the news that we've started building a base in Krzygistan to provide a longer term Asian presence that puts us within 300 miles of China and of Russian oilfields, without the necessity of Pakistani airspace privileges? The official line is this is not a permanent airbase, probably stated to reassure the Russian and Chinese governments. After all, this is a first for us, in formerly USSR territory. But it clearly provides a new strategic point of presence overlooking the ME. Especially if we maintain airspace privileges over Afghanistan. I suspect this new 'temporary' or interim airbase requires a longer presence within Afghanistan, not so much to overcome the last pointy shards of a shattered Taliban, but to provide compelling inducements, with more carrot than stick, for warlords to set aside past tribalism. If that's achievable, It seems that Krzygistan, Turkey, the Persian Gulf, Israel and ?? provides us different strategic angles to hem in the terrorist nations of Iran, Syria, Iraq, as well as closer oversight in the Pakistan/india arena. It may well be that a neutralized Afghanistan is part of a defense objective whose outlines are just starting to be sketched... or perhaps an offense objective....