http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-02-21-asia-holbrooke-afghanistan_N.htmU.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke visited Kazakhstan on Sunday to drum up regional assistance in stabilizing Afghanistan, the last stop on his tour of former Soviet states in Central Asia.
The recent surge in the U.S. military contingent in Afghanistan has been accompanied by a U.S. effort to enlist help from neighboring nations in rebuilding the war-ravaged country and to provide reassurances that the war won't spill over the border.
"We are talking to all the countries that have a concern in the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and that is why we are here today," Holbrooke said in Kazakh capital of Astana.
Holbrooke's trip also included Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, where he met with heads of state and held talks on cooperation in Afghanistan.
The various ethnic, tribal and linguistic groups in the region hate each other.
They view each other as traditional enemies.
They have spent millenia at war with each other.
Involving them in each other's "security" will be completely counter productive.
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