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Agreed. The loss of life was tragic. The alternatives were not acceptable: captitulation to terrorists or the death of all 800+ hostages. The Russians had the guts to make a decision. I am disgusted at the Monday morning quarterbacks who refuse to understand the gravity of the situation.

Absolutely! If only a fifth of the hostages survive, it will still be more than if the terrorists would have allowed to act on their plan. Amnesty International needs to focus on Mugabwe, Zimbabwe...

I am disgusted at the Monday morning quarterbacks who refuse to understand the gravity of the situation.

Right on. The people complaining here are the same folks who would have whined had Bush been able to shoot down the two jetliners before they crashed into the WTC towers.

I'm sure the Russians didn't intentionally kill their own people. But surely drastic measures were called for. The alternative would have been 800+ dead bodies almost for sure. It takes guts to make the decision that Putin did just as it would have taken guts to shoot down those two airliners in NYC. Had the two airliners been shot down, the terrorist operation would have been a total failure from the point of view of the terrorists. I'm sure that the terrorists are going to think twice before storming a Russian theater again.