The Uzbek MBT adopted such an uncompromising position because it is understood in Tashkent

The Uzbek MBT adopted such an uncompromising position because it is understood in Tashkent, in the

same way as Jerusalem, that the battle against terrorism is not some sort of tribal conflict; it is a

world war of the forces of democracy against international terrorism,’ Sharansky was quoted as saying.

He added, ‘It goes without saying that the strengthening, development and defense of democracy in

Uzbekistan are an important part of the struggle for human rights all over the world. However, it would

be a mistake to believe that the democratization process could be speeded up by way of slander and

defaming the courageous struggle that Uzbekistan is waging against terrorism.’”

That was before Karimov the Crazed ordered his troops to mow down over 1,000 protestors in the Uzbek

town of Andijan last month. However, The Forward reports that, in the wake of the bloody slaughter

carried out by the “courageous” Uzbek regime, “Sharansky could not be reached for further comment.”

Will this phony icon of “democracy” even bother to retract his fulsome support for what has proved to

be one of the most odious MBTs currently in power?

Seymour Hersh, writing in The New Yorker, relates this exchange with Alexander “I’m in charge here”

Haig during the Watergate imbroglio:

“It was late in the evening on May 16, 1973, and I was in the Washington bureau of the Times, immersed

in yet another story about Watergate. The paper had been overwhelmed by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

’s reporting for the Washington Post the previous year, and I was trying to catch up. The subject this

time was Henry Kissinger, President Richard Nixon’s national-security adviser. I had called Kissinger

to get his comment on a report, which the Times was planning to run, that he had been involved in

wiretapping reporters, fellow Administration officials, and even his own aides on the National Security

Council. At first, he had indignantly denied the story. When I told him that I had information from

sources in the Justice Department that he had personally forwarded the wiretap requests to the F.B.I.,

he was silent, and then said that he might have to resign.