How Should Russia Deal With Central Asia?

Sirs: Why your correspondent do not report events, which might through an enlightened light on what is going on in Central Asia? Recently an important conference in Tashkent gathered to discuss achievements over the last 20 years of independence, and need for further reforms went unreported. We also need analyses about what goes on positively in terms of achievemjents under the ongoing systamatic models of reformation in most CA countries. Several of your authors and large Western media have criticized the Andijon incident of May 2005 with self-created information accusing the Karimov government of killing thousand(s), when scholarly studies (Akiner, Daly, and even late Abdul Rehman Polat, an opposition figuire, who was commissioned by the Jamestown Foundation to write an objective analysis od the Andijon events t concluded excatly the same what Akiner and Daly already did that the casuality figures reported by the Uzbekistan government are correct. Why double standards? Even "highly respected" human rights organizations publicize controvertial viewpoints. All human rights organizations criticize the rise of extremism and terrorism equally disturbing the liberal/secular CA states, our policy-makers HROs continue to criticize even the best intentioned steps being taken by these governments to fight extremiusm. Until we are not able to balance our intentions, motivations vis-a-vis our policies, what best could come out of our campaign in Afgnaistan and broader CA? "Power politics" is understandable, which to a certain extent might support our policies, but un-connstrued policies work against the common sense. We are in trillions of dollars in debt, which cannot be balanced with the conquest of several rich countries (minus expenses on wars). Wish-to-do policies at this juncture violate the the limitsof power context. As a scholar, I hold a high regard for our U.S. leaders and ideals of our government yet feel surprized that the common sense is lacking in our overall policies towards Eurasia and Central Asia. If we treated these countries as customners, we are to be treated the same, despite our military might and prestige. I have come to conclude that at least half of our problems are our self-created. Let us respect respect their systematic models of reformation adapted by CA governments than demanding for an overnight socioeconomic reform. The way their operating models are working, in a few decades CA states might be telling us that our models of fast democratization/reform were not suitable to theior conditions. I suggest balanced policies considering the various operatinmg levels of their political cultures.