Winds team member Nathan Hamm of the Argus covers a recent interview with Craig Murray, formerly the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan. All is not well there.
Nathan's earlier post about Central Asia, democracy, and U.S. policy is its necessary twin, in order to acieve a fuller perspective... as is Dan Darling's famous backgrounder on Beslan and Al-Qaeda in Central Asia if you really want to understand the choices involved.
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Since new democracies are so easily topped in the proximity of Russia and China, perhaps the U.S. government should open a multilingual web site that tells ordinary citizens how the can strengthen their nascent democracies.