Disregard for Human Life By Pavel Felgenhauer There can be no justification or sympathy for the hostage-takers who last week took the lives of innocent children in the school in Beslan, North Ossetia. The final body count still isn't in following the reckless, poorly organized attempt to free the hostages by Russian special forces. But it's already clear that only about 10 percent of the hostages escaped unharmed; the rest were killed or wounded, most of them children. In his address to the nation last Saturday, President Vladimir Putin rightly said that a full-scale terrorist war is being waged against...