{"id":6849,"date":"2009-02-04T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/68.169.38.31\/?p=6849"},"modified":"2009-02-04T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T06:25:00","slug":"us-out-of-kyrgyzstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/us-out-of-kyrgyzstan\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. out of Kyrgyzstan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flagspot.net\/images\/k\/kg.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/flagspot.net\/images\/k\/kg.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Or perhaps that should simply be a period. Looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2009\/02\/change_comes_to_central_asia.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Russia is pulling another former SSR closer into her orbit<\/a>. This is neither catastrophic nor irreversible at this point, but it shows how weak the U.S. is (or is perceived to be) in Central Asia, a region that\u2019s obscure but possesses strategic significance in a number of dimensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or perhaps that should simply be a period. Looks like Russia is pulling another former SSR closer into her orbit. 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