Things are Heating Up in Kyrgyzstan

Revolutions don't always make much of a wave in the MSM, but as Glenn [or was it Glenda?] Reynolds reminds us, they will be blogged.

Protests are spreading widely in Kyrgyzstan. Gateway Pundit raises a few very pertinent questions.

1) Is Kyrgyzstan Another Link in the Chain of Political Change? My answer is "yes" but remember I'm the guy who just a couple of weeks ago thought that the demonstrations would die out. [For what it's worth, TOL is still of that opinion. Read it here.]

2) Where is [President] Akayev? He seems to have gone into hiding.

3) Is the situation irreversible? One Soviet expert is quoted as saying so. There will be a regime change.

Tajikistan seems to think so. It has tightened controls over its border with Kyrgyzstan.

Russia is not so sure. Publius Pundit reports that Russia is demanding that it be able to send in its own team of election observers. As Publius points out this is a blatant attempt, used before by Russia, to attempt to control the outcome of the elections.

The US is finally taking an interest, but the MSM seems to be oblivious to the great changes going on outside the Middle East.

For updates, including pictures [but no hot protest babes] check out Ben Paarman and Christopher Schwartz' blog here.

Ditto with Registran.net.

The wave of revolutions emanating from Ukraine has spread farther and faster than I would have imagined just a few weeks ago. Central Asia is an area of immense importance. We cannot afford to ignore the great changes taking place there.

Parenthetically [heading right back into the shallow end of the pool], if the Kyrgyzistan revolt succeeds, it will blow the "babe theory" out of the water.