You only need to read this sentence from the piece to assess the whole of it:
"For his part, President Putin tried to divert the outrage over the horrific Breslan catastrophe away from his KGB colleagues who had caused it"
Author credibility = FLUSH
Well, the "Putin for Pope" crowd will, arrive soon and try to paint the National Review as some sort of lefty rag.
It's simply amazing that people in this forum are so willing to embrace the rebirth of totalitarianism in Russia with such fervor.
Putin is dangerous.
No Dostoevsky.
Over here!
Agent Mulder, wasn't the Beslan massacre caused by the aliens and the cover-up was a joint effort of US and Russian secret services?
First it was around 800 people. Lets get figures straight if credibility of any sort is to be achieved. Now, considering an 80% survival rate in a no win situation, that is not bad. I will say this for the record, as my father taught me: do not criticize unless you have a better solution. I for one do not and neither have I seen one from any one of the legion of critics who have come marching through.
Then again, these are almost all the same critics that assault Bush on Iraq damning him for any success and offering no better solutions. As we do not accept such shoddy journalism on our own soldier and their sacrifices to save as many as possible, neither should we accept it of our allies and pseudo allies.
Remember one thing: the Left (both here and abroad) loves Islam (I have yet to figure this out in its totality) and will do anything to split the allies (yes our own are our worst enemies in our very own war of survival...sick isn't it?) and pseudo allies and focus them on criticizing and fighting each other rather then the Islamofacists that the socialist/communist shill and whore for.