Well, there you have it. John Kerry hasn't said one word about the situation. That must mean he is not a leader.
Practically incomprehensible but I'm not going to begrudge various Russian voices a chance to howl in pain and anger. I remember how I wanted to respond to Septembeer 11th...
I believe the Osama, etal, are real. I believe they all need to be eradicated. I believe that we will win the war, only if we can eliminate this crazy bunch of self-centered terrorists!!! They are called Muslims, and they are anathema. They all listen to their Mullahs...Kill them all! ALL! It is what should have been done... They stopped too soon!
(Proud knights in the Crusades would march towards forgiveness of their sins, filled with greed. Bloodshed was worth it, dying was worth it. Marching towards Jerusalem with victory in their eyes, they would take anyone who stood in their way of victory. In Jerusalem they never stopped killing the Muslims. That was the Crusades of the Middle Ages.
In the year 1095, people were shocked in Western Europe by the words of Pope Urban II, "The Muslims have conquered Jerusalem". The Muslims forbade Christians and pilgrims to come to Jerusalem to pray. Pope Urban wanted the Christians to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims. People shouted "God wills it". All over France these were the words of the Christians.... -excerpted- http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/1kyle.htm
Yes, this is the prevailing sentiment emerging in Russia.
They are angry at us and are lumping Americans, British, and EU-weenies all together as anti-Russian and as contributing to this debacle.
Reported only in the Russian press is that the terrorists were in possession of thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of American dollars.
The day after the Chechen elections held two weeks ago Tuesday, the American State Department issued a statement declaring the elections were "invalid".
This was just days after the Chechens had blown up two Russian airliners, a bus stop, and a metro station.
Way to go, State Department.
The Russians are angry at US!!
Rather than enlisting them in the War on Terror, we have alienated them further.
I expect that Russia will become more like Imperial Russia, Soviet in nature, while not Internationalist Communist in structure.
It will be almost impossible for them to look upon the West with anything but suspicion and contempt, especially after the unspeakable outrage in Beslan.
"To resist to this - Moscow should let it know that we are ready to a new war, ready to be at war by new rules and new methods, not with certain mythical 'international terrorists' who never existed and don’t exist, but with managers and masterminds of 'the insurgents and freedom fighters,' the geopolitic puppeteers, who are ready to destroy thousand Russians for the sake of achievement of their purposes on repartition of the world."
Looks like some Rooskies are catching on to an effective way of combating terrorists - right out of Israels handbook. Hunt and kill those who organize and coordinate the human bombs.
Chronicle of the end times brainwash
April 1999 - as NATO was bombing maternities in Belgrade and everything that moved in Kosovo, mass media was telling people that the poor albanians were fleeing from being slaughtered by the Serbs.
September 2004 - as Russia liberates hundreds, after international terrorists slaughter hundreds of children, media is telling people that Putin is responsible for the deaths of those hundreds of children while portraying the terrorist leaders as fighters against the oppression of Putin.