Use Special Forces, hunt down the terrorists. Engage the assistance of any moderates in Chechnya, isolate the terrorists as much as possible.
Engage the assistance of the US and the coalition of the willing, stop attacks on Chechen civilians.
Concentrate on the enemy...just like the US is doing throughout the world.
Has it struck you that the worst example of American brutality that anyone's come up with three years into the war, is making prisoners wear women's undies on their heads?
They're doing that now. Unfortunately, Russian SOF are way below their American counterparts in skill and equipment. (Russian SOF were the lead players in Moscow and Beslan.)
Engage the assistance of any moderates in Chechnya, isolate the terrorists as much as possible.
This sounds like John Kerry. Sorry, dude, gotta call 'em the way I see 'em. There never were any moderates in Chechnya during this war; the Chechens had themselves a nice round of Stalinist purges before the Russians ever showed up in the mid-1990s.
Engage the assistance of the US and the coalition of the willing, stop attacks on Chechen civilians.
Colonel Chivington's advice is awfully hard to argue with sometimes.
Concentrate on the enemy...just like the US is doing throughout the world.
Unfortunately, it seems that the definition of "enemy," based on Western press reports from the first attempt to take Grozny in 1995, includes any child over the age of 8. (The Taman Guards Division attempted a "Thunder Run" into Grozny, similar to the one the US 3rd Infantry Division made into Baghdad, with a lot of restraint about targeting--and got the crap kicked out of them. Little kids would guard stairwells with Makarov pistols and Molotov cocktails while teenagers and up fired AK-47s and RPGs.)
Has it struck you that the worst example of American brutality that anyone's come up with three years into the war, is making prisoners wear women's undies on their heads?
Yeah. We're a LOT more squeamish than the Russians are. About the only thing holding back the Russian military is an effective PR campaign in the West. It's being run by the usual suspects in the US, such as CAIR and the Washington Report on Mideastern Affairs--both funded by Wahabbist money.
However, one more Beslan event, and Putin's liable to just start throwing nukes around. And I, for one...would not give a damn if he did.