We've been involved since 1999. Giving them independence and an army is our way out.

Ideally they should buy the equipment. But if it lets us remove some of our equipment and forces it might be profitable for us to just give stuff to them. Plus you'd think we'd have some old stuff like Patton tanks sitting around we could give away.

This may be somewhat less necessary if we decide to build a big military base there. I don't know if it'd add much tactically considering what we already have but we seem to be happy to add more major airbases and if the situations sour with Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, or Turkey we'd be glad we had it. And we're getting at least a little flack from each of them.