This is dishonest, Luis. The hostages and hostage takers were miles away.
How many hostages died?
If soldiers had died preparing to liberate the hostages at the school, it would be ridiculous to blame Putin.
The reason Carter was blamed for the failed hostage rescue is that he was seen as incompetent, and this failed mission reinforced an image in the public's mind that was already there.
He posed the question, and I answered it.
He wanted to know who got blamed for the mission going to s$%t, and the answer was that we blamed Carter; it cost him the Presidency.
Putin's two hostage rescue attempts have netted less than sixty terrorists, and over 500 civilian deaths...Putin is incompetent just like Carter was incompetent.
In contrast, the Israelis rescued the hostages at Entebbe, killed all terrorists, and lost only three hostages.
Yeah, blame the terrorists for taking the hostages, and they should all die for targeting defenseless civilians, but for crying out loud, quit carrying water for a communist dictator wannabe who's been slaughtering civilians by the thousands for years in Chechnya, and now wants to claim moral equivalency between 9/11, and Beslan.
We committed no atrocities which led to the attacks on 9/11, but the undeniable truth is that Russia's atrocities in Chechnya have led to the current situation there.
Russians kill Chechen civilians, Chechens kill Russian civilians. People in this forum have justified the bombing of Chechen population centers as just being part of war...civilians die. Yet, they turn around and condemn the Chechens for waging war back at the people waging war on them because they killed civilians!
Well, the Russian bombs that fell on Grozny for months on end weren't designed to avoid children.
And for the record Putin=Andropov.