"Substantially protected", my @ss.
Israeli children & their mothers have been targeted. In other instances children were only "collateral damage", but they certainly weren't protected.
The real difference is that now they have been specifically targeted.
Where is the UN ? What do you say Kofi, old boy ? Should we all sing "kumbaya" over the dead bodies ?
Hopefully, the Russians will not be bashful about retaliation.
If Pres. Bush could forge an alliance against terror with the Russians, it might be the only good thing to come out of this.
Yes. An alliance on cultural, or perhaps better, "civilizational" grounds might be more fruitful and lasting than the WWII alliance against the Nazis.