Posted on 09/18/2001 5:31:40 AM PDT by Old Lady
ALMATY, Sep 18, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Russia's top security envoy warned the United States on Tuesday against breaking international law in its planned attack on suspected terrorist bases in Afghanistan.
"There must be a response to terrorist acts, of course ... but this response should be carried out within the framework of international law," said Russia's Security Council chief Vladimir Rushailo while on a tour of Central Asia.
"Peaceful and innocent people should not suffer" in a U.S. reprisal attack, Rushailo stressed.
Rushailo on Tuesday met Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarabayev and Defense Minister Sat Tokpakbayev after being dispatched to the region by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He said the aim of the visit, which comes amid speculation about possible U.S. retaliatory strikes against Osama bin Laden in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, was intended to help exchange opinions, evaluate the situation and coordinate joint efforts.
A senior Kazakh official earlier this week promised that Kazakhstan would "give everything that is necessary and needed to punish terrorists."
Uzbekistan, which shares a 170-kilometer (106-mile) border with Afghanistan, indicated Monday that it was ready to allow its territory to be used by the United States for an Afghan strike.
Russia has been very cautious in allowing NATO troops to be stationed in former Soviet republics, and Rushailo was Tuesday due to fly for meetings with Uzbek officials.
"The situation in Central Asia was never easy, I mean in terms of the confrontation with international terrorism and after the September 11 events and terrorism acts in the U.S., it naturally concerns the president of Russia," he said.
Rushailo further proposed that the 12 countries of the CIS loose alliance the groups all former Soviet republics except for the three Baltic states form a telephone hotline in response to the situation around Afghanistan.
That's what I thought.
Russia can go F itself.
If that weren't so perverse..it would be laughable....
It was on our soil and it was against our citizens. The Russians and anyone else who cares to bow to International Law can do so. To admonish us to do the same invokes one response and one response only from me: KMA.
If the Russians want any credible standing, they should stand with us. Their admonishments are little more than foolish hypocrisy. The US has hamstrung itself for years by following internaitonal law and protocols, as well as by trying to aid other countries and mediate disputes. This is our reward; to be mercilessly attacked by hateful fanatics.
It's time to take the gloves off. No Marquis of Queensbury rules. Last man standing.
If that weren't so perverse..it would be laughable....
They are acting political, as we did when we supported bin Laden against them. They are acting reasonable considering our history of bombing Slavs in Serbia and supporting the Afghans against them before that.
Real politick is perverse by definition.
Buchanan is right. We should be a Republic not an Empire.
We also have the right to attack Afghanistan if we can provide evidence that an attack on our country came from there. I suspect we will do so shortly even if we cannot offer proof.
International law is never going to be enforced but on a selective and cynical basis by mankind in any event. It will take Christ's millennial reign to have "peace and justice" upon the earth.
That is all well and good, but, they are then ignoring the vast sums of capital we have pushed there...Not politically astute, unless they are trying to curry favor with their new chinese buddies...
"What is truth?" said jesting Clinton, and would not stay for an answer.
I know it sounds radical. But the world needs a jolt so that it pays close attention to this PERVERSE DIPLOMATIC PLOY. No one on earth with any decency will blame you for lambasting him. Everyone knows what this is about. LEGAL LOOPHOLES TO DEFEND TERRORISTS.
1. Russia is fighting a CIA sponsored insurgency in Chechnya, many of which get refuge in Georgia and Turkey...both on the US payroll....makes one so anctious to have NATO on your southern border.
2. Russia has watched NATO sponsor Islamic insurgencies in Bosnia, Kosovo and Makedonia. Russia has also seen how the US responded to the Turkish invasion of Cypruss and the slaughter of 100,000 greeks.
3. NATO has lied repeatedly to Russia about enlargement and its benevalence...for the past 10 years and nothing has changed...why let the US and NATO into the very Causcus that NATO oil companies have been trying desperately to exploit?
And what does Russia get for this? NATO expansion to its borders? Constant American mass media sterotyping and condemnation? Becoming the front line of the war on Islam while getting backstabbed by the West (something that the West has been quite good at since the days of the Mongol invasions)? How much did the US protest when the Islamics, sponsored by the Pakies and the US, blew up Russian apartment buildings? Kidnapped Russian children and cut off their fingers? Butchered Russian POWs? Please, where was the general American indignation at that?
As for all the "monies" the US has given, it amounts to $5 billion, half of what the Germans gave...in exchange for Yeltsin allowing Western corporations to rape Russia and bomb Serbia...ever wonder why for the last 3 years of Putin's rule Russia has experienced an average growth rate of 6%? As for the IMF 30% interest loans...Russia has already paid back half of the $18 billion.
So, next time you feel so self righteous, ask yourself this: what does the INDEPENDENT country of Russia get for its sacrifices and what is the US willing to give up? Support for the Bin Ladin Chechins? Support for the Bin Ladin KLA? Support for the NATO nazi enlargement to the Russian borders? I some how doubt any of that will be given up, and untill that happens, don't expect Russia to bend over for the American reach around.
By the way, the US policies in Vietnam, which killed 3 million people, were not much different then the Soviet ones in Afghan...or haven't you ever heard of the Zippo Express?
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