We can expect a very strong response (attack) from the Russians anytime now. I hope this will convince the Russians to stop being critical of our war on terror. Now they know what it's like. it is unfortunate that it came to this, but maybe now the Russians will join us in fighting these savages.
Un, Russians have been on the receiving end of jihadis since the early 80's. We're the latecomers. In fact, they were our boys for a long time.
Remember, we supported fanatical islamis to drive them out of Afghanistan.
We were the ones who were the prime halter on Russia's attempts to wipe out those jihadis. For example throughout the 90s we would tell the Russians not to do this and not to do that toward the Chechens. For example there was a huge drive to pressure the Russians not to use fighter-bombers against imbedded Chechen targets, hence requiring the sending of ground troops to Chechnya (when an aerial bombardment would have been more expedient, and much safer). Also I can recall that when the Russians started to use some defragmentation rocket systems (that proved very effective against Chechen fighters), or when HE explosives with ball-bearings were used, that there was a huge cry throughout international circles that Russia was 'going too far.' Actually the same argument used against Russia was the one directed towards Israel. As in some groups apparently think it is inherently unfair when Israel uses its Merkava MBTs (main battle tanks) against Palestinian terrorists, or Apache gunships against terrorist vehicles, or F-16s against terrorist hideouts (those people are dumb ....is Israel supposed to not use its capabilities so as to be 'fair').
The Russians have basically been in the war against terror for almost a decade now. The only thing they did not do is support us in the war on Iraq, and I guess to them it really did not gell (for them) as a war against terror (and anyways they had economic interests in the region). However, unlike France and Germany (especially France), at least all the Russians did was nto support us (unlike the French who did everything in their power to sink our ship when it came to going into Iraq).
I think the Bush strategy is, per Condi Rice: 'Forgive Russia, ignore Germany, punish France.'