I doubt that Perle criticized Putin for going after the real Chechen terrorists. More likely he criticized Putin for slaughtering many thousands of Chechen's who weren't terrorists.
When this kind of thing happens in places like Serbia or Iraq, Perle would call it "collateral damage."
There is no comparison between our collateral damage in Iraq and Putin's collateral damage in Chechnya.
31 posted on 10/25/2004 9:16:50 PM PDT by FreeReign