Stalker in the Sea Named Solaris: Chechnya

short-term effect of getting "the world" onside vs terrorists = exactly as mike avers
long-term effect = more complex and less shocking?

to be honest i haf not tht thru the dialectics of this, but i think the sheer scale of WCT 9-11 is already forcing US public (some of em) to ask bigger questions abt roots and causes than eg *just* WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP YOU OF FBI/CIA TO KEEP US SAFE.

There's really an AWFUL LOT of skeletons currently rattling around. The Chechnya one is of course that the bombing of the moscow apartment block which started the war may have been planned and undertaken not by chech terorrist but by russian intelligence provocateurs

I note that Mullah Omar has come right out and said in a statement 'could the people of the US ask what the hell their government has been doing all this time' -- a good point, the only problem of course being that it's going to be drowned out *and* that the left, by saying the same thing, are going to be even more marginalized here. Maybe.

heres a good quote from the independent "the international community must and will re-evaluate the situation in chechnya"

hahahahaha wonder what that means.

go ahead, vladimir vladimirovich, go and throw another 20000 russian kids into 'the meat grinder'......

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haven't heard much about chechnya lately, with so many other conflicts in the world right now.

do you think this war could possibly outlast putin (assuming he steps aside in 2008 as planned)?