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To: Yaacov who wrote (9230)	11/23/2001 4:24:13 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 23908

Uzbeks share a Central Asian brand of manifest destiny, believing that their country alone is equipped psychologically and militarily to act as Central Asia's policemen. "Why do you want to go to Turkmenistan?" the Uzbek consul to New York asked me when I applied for my first visas to visit Central Asia, in 1997. "It's nothing but desert. Kyrgyzstan is nice with the mountains, sure, but you see the mountains and then what? Kazakhstan is nothing more than an old nuclear-testing ground. Now Uzbekistan, we have 2,500 years of history, all the best cities, the best food. You should really just visit Uzbekistan." motherjones.com