08.09.2011 кунлик архив
Some Straight Talk for a Washington Visitor
By: Steve Swerdlow and Patrick Griffith
The Huffington Post
September 8, 2011
A high-level Uzbek official is in Washington this week for talks about ramping up cooperation on supply routes through Central Asia for US troops in Afghanistan. All well and good. The US needs to supply the troops. But if the Arab Spring has taught the U.S. nothing else, it is that there is a cost for playing footsie with repressive regimes. And Uzbekistan is about as repressive as they come.
