we'll capitalize on what matthew was talking about. what we want to do is talk about scirge st kyrgyzstan, three-quarters of the people are muslims. all the muslim nation friends we get in the united states. that in and of itself, this government does not want instability in kyrgyzstan. let's zoom in. i want you to see the base matthew was talking about. the base was created after 9/11. two months after 9/11 happened, the united states went to this manas -- it was once an airport set up by the soviet union once upon a time and the u.s. turned this into an air base for u.s. troops. >> and they still don't call it an air base, because they don't want the politics. >> the official name is not that, but everyone refers to it as manas air base. 50,000 troops went there alone. >> on the way to afghanistan, they use it as a supply base. >> it's a major supply base right in that region for afghanistan. fuel and supplies are brought in. let's zoom back out and i'll show you how close it is to