In this op-ed piece, scholar S. Frederick Starr suggests that Washington’s quest to court Islamic moderates should shift its focus from the Middle East to other predominately Muslim countries such as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Should We Shift Focus from Middle East to Central Asia?
Original article by S. Frederick Starr published in the New York Times on 02/26/2014