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Originally posted by onetime2
I just don't know that there are ways to do both right now. Do you think the US (and others) aren't pressuring them to change their activities? I'm sure they are. So, in a sense, they are doing both. It may not be the fastest route to ending the abuse but it may be the best route to accomplish both.
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Hmm, you may have missed the paragraphs in the article I posted earlier that states that we are not pressuring them to change. In fact, we are giving them a pass on improving their human rights record based on national security grounds.
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WASHINGTON - The United States is continuing to its military relationship with Uzbekistan, including paying to disable nuclear weapons from the old Soviet arsenal, under President Bush's waiver of rules that required improvements in the country's human rights record.
Both the finding that Uzbek President Islam Karimov's government failed last year to meet rights criteria of the Nunn-Lugar disarmament program, and Bush's waiver on national security grounds, were effective Dec. 31, State Department spokesman Lou Fintor said Sunday.
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To receive money under the law, U.S. partners in the program must satisfy human rights requirements unless the president says the national interest takes precedence.
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There ya go. No pressure. Do as you please with you people.