Posted on 09/07/2004 12:03:16 PM PDT by Pikamax
WASHINGTON AP) - The Bush administration differed Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and said that only a political settlement could end the crisis between Russia and the breakaway region of Chechnya.
The administration also left open the possibility of U.S. meetings with Chechens who are not linked to terrorists.
Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage signed a book of condolences at the Russian Embassy over the deaths of at least 330 people, most of them children, during a hostage-taking last week at a school in the southern city of Beslan.
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That's why I added more likely a militia --- like the early Americans did when they went up against the British ARMY but not against the little British school kids.
"WTF???"
Exactly!! I am rethinking my vote this fall. The administration should be offering military assistance to kill these muslim extremists. I am livid about our response, or should I say lack of it.
Let's see...
We toppled Saddam roughly a year ago, have set in place a Iraqi government that's about to hold democratic elections, but you are going to compare the US presence in Iraq to the forty year Russian occupation of Poland?
Ditto that....
Since Russia invaded Chechnya in 1994, they've been guilty of acts of genocide on the Chechen people.
Would you support the US troops committing genocide in Iraq?
This reassessment did not evolve without twists and extremes. In the early 1990s many Russian intellectuals ignored the criminal tinge in the Chechens' national liberation movement. Recently, however, they have been willing to identify nearly the entire current population of Chechnya with criminals.
These attitudes became widespread after an incident in August 1999. Detachments of Chechen and Dagestani fighters commanded by Shamil Basayev and Amir Khatab crossed the Chechen-Dagestan border and attempted to seize several areas of the Dagestan Republic. All Russian political forces supported the government's actions to rebuff the terrorists. If there was any criticism in the Russian press, the author is not aware of it.
The Dagestan Republic WAS Chechnya before the Bolsheviks split the country.
Oh, that's right...Bolsheviks; not the same as Soviets, not the same as Russians.
Now if you want to talk about killing children, go read what the liberals have to say about the children who died in Iraq under our sanctions.
So then I guess we should release parts of Texas and California too.
The Dagestanis wanted no part of the chechens and asked Russia for help.
You mean the same thing that the Bolsheviks (not to be confused with Soviets or Russians) did when they invaded Dagestan in 1923 and divided the nation?
Just remember, this was what turned the Russians against the chechens between the wars. Chechen behavior.
The only pro-chechens left on earth are those who hate Russia so virulently that even satan himself would be their choice between the two.
Good night.
Seriously is this some kind of joke?
"Sure. I'm with you. Now, all we have to do is round them up. Where are they? What are their names? Let's go get 'em."
If you don't think we know who all the heads of the major terrorist groups are and where most of their locations are, you are sorely mistaken. We know who they are and where they rut. The only thing keeping us from killing them all is politics and political correctness. These operations would involve breaching the borders of many soveriegn nations, and our government doesn't have the guts to go do it, plain and simple.
Texas anexed itself to the U.S.
We took California from Mexico.
Sometimes is good to recognize that some of the things nations do are not always kosher.
What the U.S. didn't do, was failing to give either Texas or California, or its citizens, a voice in their government.
Of the two...Chechnya and Russia, which one aimed nuclear war heads at the US mainland?
Of the two...Chechnya and Russia, which one was supporting Saddam Hussein?
I'm not pro-Chechen, I'm anti-Russian.
If Chechens wanted to be free from Russia, they made a mistake by turning to the Arabs.
Of the two, only one should be allowed to have breeding adults.
It is sad how the war on terrorism seems to be a pretext for waging tribal or religious war for some folks. President Bush has consistently stated that we not in a war against Islam or Muslims, the problem is terrorism and those who support it.
Bush is too much of a gentleman and politician to say we are in a war against ISLAMIC MUSLIM EXTREMISTS, so he prefers to keep it generic. In the meantime, the ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS continue to wage JIHAD on the west.
And the difference between you and Chechen terrorists is...?
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