[Happy2BMe]

If the Russians lose 100% of all the remaining Islamic hostages (for the holy sake of Allah), it would still be less than 50% of what we lost just between the two WTC buildings.

[Travis McGee]

This is different. This is children. And it's after a long string of islamic terror attacks.

Sooner or later, a country will be pushed too far, and will pull the plug on Mad Mo's Insane Murder Cult.

[Robert_Paulson2]

but proportionally they are but 180 million people since the end of the soviet empire... or so I read of late.

[Travis McGee]

Plus, 9-11 was essentially a fait accompli. This is an ongoing hostage crisis involving 100s of children, and the Russians are justified in upping the ante to the terrorists' pain threshold.

Mecca is that pain threshold. They love death, death means nothing. But they fear losing the black moon-god rock.