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The very best news! Now go and level Grozny!!!! Death to all Islamic terrorist! Don't pull this crap on us again!

Bad time to be an islamofascist.

With this, the Bali bombing and the DC assassins, few are going to shed a tear when the civilized world goes islamofascist hunting.

Looks like the Russians got it right this time.

A lot of people seem to be characterizing the "hostage takers" (trying to use a neutral term) as "terrorists," simply because they are Islamic. But the Chechens actually have a reasonably legitimate nationalistic beef with the Russians, who only conquered their previously independent country in the mid-nineteenth century. Uncle Joe deported the entire population to Siberia in the 1930s. And the Russians haven't necessarily been a lot more civilized than the Chechens in waging the civil war that has been going on there.

I think a lot of peoples that were subject to the iron fist of the former Soviet Union have legitimate reasons to complain. If I were a non-religious Chechen, I sure as hell would be wondering why Georgia and Armenia are independent now, but my country is still subject to imperial rule. Therefore, I'm not sure its right to automatically condemn the Chechen cause simply because Chechnya is Islamic.

Don't get me wrong. I certainly agree that the kind of militant Islamo-facism exhibited by El Qaeda et al. is primitive, barbaric, and needs to be eradicated. And I abhor hostage taking (and even more so, hostage killing)that the Chechens have engaged in here. But I am not sure "levelling Grozny" is really the "final solution" to this particular problem.