POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: BASE POLITICS. As state repression grows in Central Asia, the United States is turning a blind eye. Alexandra Poolos explains that popular suspicion of the work of democracy-building organizations has grown since the color revolutions, and recent tensions between the U.S. and Kyrgyz governments over a planned U.S. Air Force base have encouraged the U.S. to tread lightly in its weak support for pro-democracy activists. --The Editors
