Our Friend in Central Asia Told Us to Get out

This is what happenes when you deal with lunatic, authoritarian nuts. At least we are getting thrown out for a good reason. The UN flew out refugees after the crackdown by the government which killed up to 700 people. That little two bit dictator is walking a fine line. He may find himself at the wrong end of a bloody coup d'etat.

Uzbeks Order U.S. From Base in Refugee Rift
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
and THOM SHANKER
NYT
WASHINGTON, July 30 - Uzbekistan formally ordered the United States to leave an air base that has been a hub for operations in Afghanistan in protest over a predawn United Nations operation on Friday to spirit out refugees who had fled an uprising in Uzbekistan in May, senior State Department officials said Saturday.

The officials said Uzbekistan had given the United States 180 days to close the base, which has played a central role in rooting out fighters of the Taliban and Al Qaeda and in carrying out relief operations.