There is an interesting report from Uzbekistan in this a.m.'s Globe and Mail. (I do not provide a link because I am still on strike against the Globe and Mail online, but it should be easy enough to find the article on the site for a few days anyway without registering.)If you feel you don't know much about Uzbekistan, Mark MacKinnon's report will give you a well-written and affecting glimpse of what life is like for the still mainly peaceful opposition to the exceptionally brutal and ugly regime of Islam Karimov.
It will also convince you that no opposition facing such horrors could remain peaceful for long. There have already been two suicide bombings; it is becoming impossible to believe that there will not be more.
And you will see there the bare, chilling logic of how U.S. imperial cynicism contributes to creating terrorism. The Bush administration has thrown in its lot with the monsters now running Uzbekistan because of its strategic position.
Soon we will hear White House spokespeople demonizing the terrorists who are bound to proliferate in such a hell; and we will hear the apologists for empire wondering sanctimoniously what it takes to encourage your young to strap explosives to themselves in order to fight such a regime as it becomes ever more confident and secure with U.S. backing. 
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posted 23 November 2004 10:44 AM
