Bush decision leads to loss of base in Uzbekistan

For years we on the right have listened to the left chirp on about the moral decadence that was our close relationships with dictators across the globe during the Cold War (read: Reagan era). Of late, it has been those relationships that some on the left have held up as one of the causes of Islamic militarism. Now flash to the present. President Bush, with little fan fare, applied pressure to Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov after he brutally put down unrest in Andijan. This decision to pressure Karimov has cost the U.S. the use of a military base in Uzbekistan (HT GOP Bloggers). Here is the test. Will those on the left applaud Bush for tightening the screws to a heavy handed leader? Will they quietly ignore this? Or, will we hear that Bush's hard headed unilateralism has cost us another ally and his failure to be pragmatic has hurt us in the war on terror? I have a thought in mind as to which of these it may be, but I'm content to sit back and observe which it turns out to be.