US presence in Central Asia encouraging govt. overthrows?

[Michael Pugliese]

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200107/10/eng20010710_74586.html
Turkmen President Fires Foreign Minister for Drunkenness
>...Niyazov has absolute control in Turkmenistan, where he is president 
for life. 

He is also the prime minister, army supreme commander and head of the 
country's only registered political party, the Democratic Party, which 
is the renamed version of the Soviet-era Communist Party.
http://www.google.com/search?Saparmurat+Niyazov+Ahmed+Rashid
M.P.