BF2S Forums Kyrgyzstan moves to shut US base

Turquoise wrote:

Hey, now's the time to find a reason to leave Afghanistan.  Fuck 'em.  We gotta cut costs somewhere, and this is a good way to do it.

If Afghanistan becomes a problem again, we can always just bomb the shit out of them again.  Blowing them up is much cheaper than rebuilding them, and you don't have to rebuild them anyway.

FatherTed wrote:

Turquoise wrote:

Hey, now's the time to find a reason to leave Afghanistan.  Fuck 'em.  We gotta cut costs somewhere, and this is a good way to do it.

If Afghanistan becomes a problem again, we can always just bomb the shit out of them again.  Blowing them up is much cheaper than rebuilding them, and you don't have to rebuild them anyway.

Nah, i do agree with the Afghan invasion. Couldn't a carrier group + Turkey or some other country take the strain of a loss of base?

Cybargs wrote:

TheAussieReaper wrote:

I'd like to see Russia deal with the Taliban.

Don't think it is in their interests however.

Got their ass kicked greatly last time. Well they did get US support during that time... Fuck the Russians.

Lieutenant_Jensen wrote:

Cybargs wrote:

TheAussieReaper wrote:

I'd like to see Russia deal with the Taliban.

Don't think it is in their interests however.

Got their ass kicked greatly last time. Well they did get US support during that time... Fuck the Russians.

And now US are getting there arse kicked. With their own weapons... Fuck the Americans.

Cybargs wrote:

Lieutenant_Jensen wrote:

Cybargs wrote:

Got their ass kicked greatly last time. Well they did get US support during that time... Fuck the Russians.

And now US are getting there arse kicked. With their own weapons... Fuck the Americans.

As Ajax said. Wat. I don't think Al Qaeda is using US weapons, and btw, I think US is winning the war, not the peace. There is a fine difference.

andy12 wrote:

Lieutenant_Jensen wrote:

Cybargs wrote:

Got their ass kicked greatly last time. Well they did get US support during that time... Fuck the Russians.

And now US are getting there arse kicked. With their own weapons... Fuck the Americans.

Actually the coalition wins pretty much every firefight they get into and there are far many more dead Taliban, take your attention seeking posts elsewhere.

andy12 wrote:

Lieutenant_Jensen wrote:

andy12 wrote:

Actually the coalition wins pretty much every firefight they get into and there are far many more dead Taliban, take your attention seeking posts elsewhere.

I lol'd.

Why when it's fact...

andy12 wrote:

Lieutenant_Jensen wrote:

andy12 wrote:

Why when it's fact...

And how many Coalition Force soldiers are getting killed by roadside bombs and suicide bombs? Many.
How many Taliban and Al-Qaeda members are getting killed by (suicide)bombs? Not many.

I'm not going to degrade soldiers lives to numbers to win an argument for some wannabe emo. The west doesn't use suicide bombs, what are you talking about? Taliban fire, Taliban take fire, air support is called in and the world is rid of said insurgents. Many more insurgents are killed than are soldiers, got anything else to add?

andy12 wrote:

Lieutenant_Jensen wrote:

andy12 wrote:

I'm not going to degrade soldiers lives to numbers to win an argument for some wannabe emo. The west doesn't use suicide bombs, what are you talking about? Taliban fire, Taliban take fire, air support is called in and the world is rid of said insurgents. Many more insurgents are killed than are soldiers, got anything else to add?

Civilians.


And then, why don't just go cry already?

What? Make some sense or get out of the section. WTF does "Civilians" mean?

Don't talk to me about crying, in bewteen begging for attention that's all you fucking do.

Mekstizzle wrote:

Kyrgyzstan's government has submitted a decree to parliament for the closure of a key US air base in the Central Asian state, Kyrgyz officials say.

The air base supports US and Nato operations in Afghanistan and is the only US base in Central Asia.

For Russia, on the other hand, it is a significant diplomatic victory as it seeks to reassert its influence in all former Soviet republics and beyond, our correspondent says.

President Bakiyev made his announcement on Tuesday in Moscow, where he was promised more than $2bn (£1.4bn) in Russian aid.

He said the Manas base - set up in 2001 to assist the US military operation against al-Qaeda and the Taleban in Afghanistan - was only meant to be open for two years at the most.

But perhaps more importantly, he made it clear the Americans had not been willing to pay what Bishkek regards as the right price to keep the base open, our correspondent says.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p … 868586.stm
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This could probably be a big blow to operations in Afghanistan. And what I find most interesting is how Russia is using its economic power to reassert itself in former USSR regions. And the fact that all this has popular support from the local populations doesn't speak well for the US.

Thoughts?

With the Taliban on the rise in Pakistan and constantly fucking up supply routes from there, even blowing up bridges and now with the probable closure of this base in Kyrgyzstan. Is the Allied operations in Afghanistan fucked? (like it was ever anything else, should've just gone straight for AQ and nabbed them all before they fucked off elsewhere, rather than get stuck into a fight with local Taliban/Pashtun nationalists which are probably impossible to actually defeat)


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Especially with O talking about how Afghanistan operations are going to be ramped up a few notches, I guess this is a giant spanner in the works

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