IPFS News Link • Afghanistan
In Central Asia, a new headache for U.S. policy
• Washington PostBeset by mounting casualties on the battlefield and deepening disquiet
at home over the United States' longest war, President Obama's Afghan
policy now faces another big headache: the unraveling of central
authority in Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation that hosts a U.S. air
base critical to the battle against the Taliban.