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Originally Posted by OpieCunningham
Now that we've gotten the black+white name calling out of the way
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I think it's fair to state a
personal and
emotional opinion on someone who takes children hostage, refuse to allow them food and water and threaten to execute them.
Also, please read my post again.
I said "
these people". I did
not say Chechens. I did not say Russians.
I think child rapists are scum also. Many of them are American. Does that mean I think all Americans are scum?
You are making a fundamental mistake in logic and do yourself and me a disfavour.
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- what exactly would you do if you were in the position of the Chechens?
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If I wanted to fight for my liberty? Well, my country did this not long ago. My grandfather fought in our War of Independence and the subsequent Civil War. Children were not kidnapped and murdered.
Hard call. Personally, whilst I believe some things are worth fighting and even killing for (in military terms), I don't believe in murdering children. I'm sorry you
seem to be justifying it.
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I see three options:
1- Terrorist acts
2- Gandhi turn the other cheek acts
3- An all out defense against the Russian military for as long as possible (a matter of days) while appealing to peaceniks around the globe (peaceniks who can't even get their own gov'ts to refrain from preemptive wars, let alone getting their own gov't to convince the Russians to refrain from murdering the Chechen civilians)
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Well, it's good that you're not leading the Chechen seperatists then, is it? There are many additional options including, but not limited to, the following obvious additions.
4 - political means
5 - guerilla war (excluding terrorism; ie attacks on schools and hospitals)
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The only one of those three options which would produce anything other than the Chechens' total annihilation at the hands of the Russian military is option #1.
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Demonstrably wrong.
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Or maybe you have another option?
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See above.
Mr Mephisto