Yes, and it's a pattern toward a kind of global socialism under the guise of the UN and the EU lapping it up and concerned that we won't be joining them, at least with Bush in office. It makes Kerry's plan for complete capitulation to the UN over any constitution we have and appeasement all the more dangerous.
I saw a similar thread that I posted on prior to Putin's address. I mentioned that he should be contacting W at the ranch so they could fight this terror together. It was a thread about the EU being irritated at Russia. I was livid. And now that the initial shock is gone for all but the most directly involved in the monstrous atrocity, the people of Beslan, the media and lefties (are they one in the same?) are peppering their supposed 'reporting' with leftie editorializing. It is revolting. To think that Kerry is on this same line of thinking. I will post link when I find it. Even within Russia, there are people blaming Putin instead of the real culprits - the terrorists, and while there are may or may not be gaps in the borders and lapses or breaches in security in places, it is hard to imagine that some animals could unleash this kind of torture on people until it happens, just like the US with 9-11. I can't believe the little blurbs 'reporters' are putting in their reports that are more editorializing than reporting and always with a left slant. It's hideous for them to try to justify or dismiss this and yet they seem to have support in their thinking.
At least Robert Cottrell thinks that Kerry will help to unfreeze conflicts on Russia borders (as Clinton did to Serbia).
"The United States will certainly move in that direction if John Kerry wins this year's presidential election and if his administration begins, as new administrations usually do, with a skeptical review of the policies of its predecessor; and it will probably do so if Bush wins and appoints a new secretary of state. "