1.0 link 59821 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lionel-beehner/a-warsaw-pact-grows-in-sh_b_59821.html This week the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)will hold its largest joint military exercises to date A few years back the SCO -- comprising China, Russia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan -- put itself on the map after effectively telling the U.S. military to scram from Uzbekistan, where it leased a base after the Twin Towers collapsed to help fight the war in Afghanistan. Last year the SCO raised eyebrows after flirting with accepting Iran, which is currently an observer state, into its ranks. Should the Shanghai club be...

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