America’s War with Itself in Central Asia
Any security policy that is detached from other human concerns is no viable security policy at all. Nowhere is this more visible than in Central Asia, where US policy towards Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan remains focused solely on securing supply routes and logistical hubs for the war in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON, DC – In its decade-long slog to secure Afghanistan, the United States has juggled contradictory foreign policies in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, the fragile Central Asian states with key supporting roles in the war. There’s the policy of engaging the two post-Soviet states for their own sake, promoting good governance, human rights, and business ties – the usual grab-bag of US diplomacy. Then there’s the policy of using them as logistical hubs in the Afghanistan war.