It's those kwazy Chechyens

Post #172,612 by deSitter 9/3/04 12:45:18 PM Reply	It's those kwazy Chechyens They want to be free of Russia. Again there is an admixture of Islam and nationalism. -drl
Post #172,636 by ChrisR 9/3/04 2:30:43 PM Reply	Part of the problem is defining "They" In the Che Guevara scheme of things, it is said you only need a dozen hard core militants to start a revolution. It's likely that there are Chechens who side with the Russians, there are Chechens that participate in the guerilla war, there are Chechens who somewhat sympathize with independence, and there are Chechens who just want to go on with their lives (which is probably the majority). Problem is that these groups all blend together, events cause the lines to shift and be gray, and it can be near impossible to distinguish friend from foe. Personally I think kidnapping and killing athletes, journalists, and children, and blowing up buses and airplanes, crosses a line where I lose sympathy for any cause which you may wish to put on the agenda. But the radical Palestinians have been practicing these tactics for years and they seem to constantly garner attention and sympathy from their neighbors and the world at large. So I suppose that just means we'll see more and more of this stuff. Non-violence as a strategy seems to have failed to taken hold.
Post #172,637 by deSitter 9/3/04 2:36:39 PM Reply	Agreed There was not a little of that in the birth of Israel - or Ireland. Was Begin a terrorist? Probably. Was Michael Collins? -drl
Post #172,638 by ChrisR 9/3/04 2:39:59 PM Reply	or closer to home George Washington? The Brits probably thought so at the time. Strange how half the world is seeing borders become more and more fuzzy, whilst the other half wants to carve itself into smaller and smaller pieces.
Post #172,641 by deSitter 9/3/04 2:44:27 PM Reply	Washington? No way! MY heroes are nae terrierists! -drl
Post #172,680 by JayMehaffey 9/3/04 6:01:22 PM Reply	Hard to say By mondern standards our revolutionary war was fairly clean. But there where atrocities on both sides. On the British side it was mostly the non-British mercenaries, who where interested in picking up as much loot as the could as they went. On the American side it was mostly beatings of loyalists and torching of their farms and houses. Jay
Post #172,669 by mmoffitt 9/3/04 4:39:52 PM Reply	The reason Palestineans get sympathy. It's called "guilt". We didn't want the Jews, so we gave them Palestine. We still feel (deeply suppressed I'll grant) guilty about that. bcnu, Mikem "I declare war to the death on dominant nation chauvinism. I shall eat it with all my healthy teeth as soon as I get rid of this accursed bad tooth." V.I. Lenin

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