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I'm sure your position would change if you were a Uzbek refugee who saw his whole family boiled alive for dissent.
Uzbek is a hard up country. Money does a lot of things for them. The money being used to disable their nukes should come with the requirements for human rights improvements. Not a waiver. At the same time this Islam Karimov gets cocky much the way Iraq and Kuwait have been knowing that they can do anything they want because they know they have Americas support behind them. They know we will provide cover for their operations.
This is the same situation as Iraq, from when we were friends.
We funded Iraq because they were a stated policy goal for our national security. And look what happened, they became much more dangerous to the world than Iran ever was and we had to put them down numerous times.
Without concrete improvements for human rights, we are still creating monsters, and history shows, that never has turned out well. I swear to God, we continue on this path with Uzbek, we will regret it one day.
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