Before you dig yourself in too deep, you should be aware that there's a good bit of truth in this article.
Russia took the position that the war in Iraq was "all about oil", so a tit for tat policy that Chechnya was just a Russian land grab wasn't too hard to understand, before the terrorists blew up the school.
The future depends on Russia. If they keep playing hardball with the US, supplying nuclear technology to Iran, and opposing the war on terror, then you aren't likely to see the US take any strong positions supporting Russia's fight against terrorism either.
Make no mistake, the world's reaction to the terrorist attack on the school has raised numerous policy questions, on all sides. Right now you see silence as everybody scrambles to figure out how to adjust to this, and to the populist pressure to "do something". It'll take time for the pendulum to settle on this one.
I sense the subtle hand of Ayman al Zawahiri in all this, including the Australian Embassy bombing.
Walking a very fine line to swing support for Kerry, or against Bush, by demonstrating that AQ can attack any time, any where, by not directly attacking the US which would weaken Kerry, and by exploiting subtle seams of potential inconsistency in our policies and alliances.
Way too early to draw conclusions, I merely offer this for consideration.
Ping to an interesting article.