The Russians are fighting one more front in the war on worldwide Islamic terror. It's a seamless germent from the Philippines to Nigeria to New York. Only the naive continue to view the Chechen "front" in the WOT as an isolated war against "separatists." These Chechen ladies blew themselves up for Allah, not for a "free Grozney." Their goal is not a free Chechnya, it's to make Chechnya part of the worldwide islamic caliphate.
new revision of the domino theory from the cold war days?
Too reasoned and logical an argument, it'll never fly, try again.
--Boot Hill
I wish folks would realize this. Once you become a Muslim, you get an instant redefinition of the world as you know it. The new world has only two nations:
All the elements of Islam worldwide fight for this single goal; to turn the entire planet into Dar El Islam, and to eliminate every square inch known as Dar El Harb. That is their goal. They have no other.