LOFTM: I have spent some time i the CIS reagion. Believe me, all the Kyrgyz wanted was more money. This guy was from the prior regime, i;d wager.

Obama just did not want us to be there, is my guess. So they did not want to pay the increase in the rent.

Yes it is a black eye. But that black eye is due to both Obama’s stance and the fact that we elected hi,

To much of the world over there, Obama is seen as a sign of American decline, even senility. Bush put the fear of God into those people at least up until the the spring of 2007. Obama is hard for a lot of people ot process over there.