We have airbases in Tajikistan and Kyrghyzstan too, which we don't need since we have plenty of airbases in Afghanistan, which is what we ostensibly need so many airbases in the region for. Right? We can torture people in Afghanistan just as easily as in Uzbekistan. We'd call this blackmail but Karimov has nothing to blackmail us with - we don't really need an airbase in Uzbekistan - so instead we're just willing accomplices to tyranny.