The Good Quote

If the West does not support Uzbek democratization
at a time when the Uzbek people need help from outside,
then the course of history will be determined only by
authoritarian rulers playing the insipid game of
accumulating power for themselves, and fanatical
elements attempting to exploit chaos.
-- Carroll Andrew Morse

Read the entire piece at Tech Central Station; it is the best analysis I've read yet of what's at stake in Uzbekistan, where the forces of democracy and the forces of authoritarianism are fighting what may be the first battle of the new cold war.