And ironically enough, all of those wingnuts and chickenhawks the same people that were oh-so-concerned about Saddam’s brutality can’t bother themselves with caring about the suffering of the Uzbeki people.
But just watch 10-20 years from now, when we suffer the inevitable blowback and have to go to war against Uzbekistan, those same wingnuts and chickenhawks will accuse the Left of “coddling” the Karimov dictatorship. We’ll be “objectively pro-Karimov”.