America has shown this to be true as well. At times it is necessary to take action which is massive and brutal.
Russia gave chechnya her freedom twice now and each time chechnya used it to brutalized people outside the country. All they had to do was stay home and put their country back together, but no. They invaded Dagestan, made repeated incursions into southern Russia and even Moscow, kidnapping and videotaping mutilations of hostages by the score.
Ikcheria is a portal to Hades. Fisk believes the evil kidnapping and beheading we are seeing now in Iraq was taught to them by the chechens. Also the slave trading going on in Iraq now is very reminiscent of chechen old-times. If Russia had ever had a successful approach to chechnya, which they never seem to have had, perhaps the radicals in Iraq would not have learned such brutal things to do with human beings.
Russia has already killed in the neighborhood of 200,000 Chechen civilians, but you don't think to think that Russia's massive assault on civilians for the past ten years had anything to do with the issues at hand.
I have yet to hear you condemn the mass murder of civilians by Russia in Chechnya.
Now, you've begun your moral relativism and are seeking to compare Russia with the US.