[r9etb]

One good way to generate new recruits for the salamikazes is to give them grievances -- indiscriminate killing of Chechen civilians being one of them. Should the Russians respond in kind, it is highly doubtful that the Chechens will calmly recognize the symmetry between this atrocity, and what the Russians would subsequently do.

Instead, a Russian retaliation would merely cause more Chechens to join with the salamikazes. (Aa it happens, standard guerilla tactic is to spur your opponent into committing atrocities against your recruiting pool, so the "kill 'em all" strategy would be playing into the salamikazes' hands.)

The better approach is to do as the IDF, and our own folks in Iraq, are doing: find and remove the leadership of the Chechen terrorists, kill as many gun-toters as possible, and work to turn the population against the salamikazes.

In the case of Chechnya, this might be difficult (the enmity between Russia and Chechnya dates back a couple of hundred years). But widespread killing of non-terrorist Chechens won't help matters at all.

[Publius6961]

One good way to generate new recruits for the salamikazes is to give them grievances -- indiscriminate killing of Chechen civilians being one of them. Should the Russians respond in kind, it is highly doubtful that the Chechens will calmly recognize the symmetry between this atrocity, and what the Russians would subsequently do.

I don't care if they do or not.
Even the death of children (who, only below a certain age, are the only "innocents") when forced to remain among the murdering sandmaggot scum using them as shields is not "indiscriminate". Nice try though, sandmaggot apologist. See my post 194.

[StoneFury]

But widespread killing of non-terrorist Chechens won't help matters at all.

Nonetheless, it is the most satisfying course of action.