Hope in a Sea of Dictatorship | Ahmed RashidVyacheslav Oseledko/AFP/Getty Images An elderly woman heading to a polling station in the village of Kyzyl Birlik, outside the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, October 30, 2011. One of the uncomfortable results of Pakistan’s late November decision to close down US and NATO supply routes to Afghanistan is that it has forced Washington to rely more on the Central Asian countries that border Afghanistan to th
