[CindyDawg]

No matter which side someone is on, only evil people torture children, even in revenge.. It's really easy to pick out the bad guys here.

[mtbopfuyn]

this is a situation that happens in Chechnya every day

Hogwash.

But the arrest of the rebel leaders' families also drew a negative reaction, especially since at least two family members suffered broken bones and several others severe bruises from being beaten and kicked. ''They just nabbed some elderly grannies. What did they have to do with either the field commanders here or the hostages in Beslan?"

Oh, boo hoo! A bloody nose is nothing compared to making children drink their own urine, running them through and blowing their bodies apart where their families may never find them for burial.

[Rakkasan1]

..while they slept. how do you sleep after being involved in killing children?

[Noachian]

The Israelis have gone as far as bulldozing the houses of terrorist's families, and that's had a small effect on terrorism in the area.

It seems terrorists value their family, and any act to endanger their families or property, makes them stop and think. The Russians seem to understand this.

The question is: what will America's response be to terrorism when all of the liberal "outreaching", and "apologizing", no longer has the ability to stop the terrorist's killing of our people?

Historically soldiers don't go after an enemy's family because the enemy will do the same thing. But, in the case of terrorists the American family is the prime target. Because of the American military code against involving noncombatants in combat the terrorists feel their own families to be perfectly safe. This may change if enough blood is spilled on American soil.

[gortklattu]

My liberal cousin in Atlanta equated the killings of the children with the torture of the prisoners in Abu Ghrab.

There's no getting to the Kerry mind, or past the hatred of Bush.

[CurlyDave]

The problem I see is that the Russians have already let them go...

[TigersEye]

How would Kerry handle terrorists?

Read this and see: Don't forget 'The John Kerry Committee'

[TomGuy]

''They were following the standard practice developed almost a century ago by the Bolsheviks and carried on by Stalin, who believed that every single act of terror should be responded to by an even bigger, more horrendous, more terrifying terrorist act," Zakayev said. ''According to this practice, it is necessary to shock terrorists, and let them know that under no condition will you agree to negotiate with them."

That will have to happen again before terrorism will be quelled. We have to look at how various civilizations/leaders in history have treated terrorism and threats from hordes of barbarians.

Some civilizations survived/won. Some civilizations were wiped out by the barbarians. We need to learn the lessons of history and apply historical solutions. It won't be pretty. It won't be very civil. But it will be necessary for our civilization to survive against a barbarous horde of terrorists who are bent on killing and maiming as many people as they can, while they drive the world back into the 7th Century.

[SuziQ]

''They were following the standard practice developed almost a century ago by the Bolsheviks and carried on by Stalin, who believed that every single act of terror should be responded to by an even bigger, more horrendous, more terrifying terrorist act," Zakayev said.

That statement would only be true if the Russians shot all these children in the back like the terrorists at Breslan did.

[TXBSAFH]

There is not such thing as a russian aclu.

[moonman]

I wasn't sure about who exactly the Chechen people were, so I did a 'google' search.If anyone would like to read about one person's history research and opinion about the Chechen, go to: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/63/077.html

[Lijahsbubbe]

''There were people making very frightening comments about us [the family detainees] like, 'They should be turned into ashtrays.' I don't know what turning a person into an ashtray means, but it sounds very menacing," Abdul-Kadyrova said.

The bad people were making bad talk? Must've been quite scary for you. I'm sure you've never heard your terrorist family members say anything so "menacing".

[jwpjr]

re: "We even hugged each other when we left"

The Russians showed a great deal more compassion to these people than the terrorists did to any of the hostages! This one sentence tells it all.

[Servant of the 9]

They were following the standard practice developed almost a century ago by the Bolsheviks and carried on by Stalin, who believed that every single act of terror should be responded to by an even bigger, more horrendous, more terrifying terrorist act ....

Sounds like a plan to me.
The trick is to make the reprisal big enough to get their attention, like, maybe, an entire city.

So9

[TASMANIANRED]

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