Right now, it is more a case of the US crippling it’s own logistics paths then Russia and Pakistan fecklessly deciding it may not be in their national interests to have trainload and truck covoys full of American military personnel & supplies going through their lands.
No sooner than Russia had invited the US to use it’s territory to get at the people who did 9/11 than they learned the US was promptly negotiating in the ‘Stans for oil pipeline deals and strategic minerals not to go to Russia, but through lands the US had a say in. Then we hit Russia with proposals to move NATO to it’s borders, meddled in Ukraine and Georgian elections, announced we were setting up NATO antimissile bases near it’s Northern Border to deal with the “Urgent Iranian missile threat”. And we continued to harbor it’s oligarch thieves that looted Russia under Yeltsin, while berating Russia regularly for human rights violations, loving Saddam, etc.
The last straw was blowing off Russia, yet again, when they had told us point blank the days of the US screwing them were ending – by recognizing Kosovo and new borders.
And also done some things that have pissed some of the ‘Stans off to the point where we have been run out of Bases of one country and are close to getting tossed from another – mainly over neocon lectures delivered on their moral inadequacies.
Pakistan, we bribed an unpopular military dictator and the people never saw a cent, we signed the Indian-American nuclear agreement while keeping Pakistan (as it should be) on the shitlist, and infuriated most Pakistanis by invading Iraq and continuing to give carte blanche to Israel.
And inside Afghanistan, have again lied our asses off about pledges to bring development and security. Causing the Taliban to resurge to fill the power vacuum and create economic and legal order from the chaos that existed for 7 years outside of eyesight of US bases or Karzai’s little Potemkin Village set-up in Kabul of “freedom and democracy” for VIP visitors to applaud.
Somehow, the neocons thought that those actions would magically have no effect on Afghanistan logistics. That as the Hegemon, with Bush the Maximum Beloved war Leader of the New American Empire, we could do as we wished and all would salute – fearing that not eating the American shit sandwiches dispensed would lead to retaliation by the supreme global power as “terrahist, Islamofascist-lovers”.
Things sure have changed…..
But if our logistics are cut, it might do America and NATO a huge favor by allowing a withdrawal from an endless war with the Pashtuns without anyone thinking the Islamoids themselves defeated us. Which would allow the military to begin rebuilding from the personnel and equipment wreckage Bush caused it. Recuperate and get its capacity back in case Iran does turn into an intractable problem needing a military solution in the next Administration or the one following that Administration.
Of course the downside is that a million, primitive radical Islamists allied with Karzai will demand to come as refugees into the United States as wealthy (from US taxpayer bribes) “democratic freedom-lovers” who did nothing to stop the Taliban, but who were “loyal friends of America”.
