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Nanofever,
an interesting position. I guess it's akin to saying that the terrorism/freedom fighting has moved on from a fight for independence, to a war of retribution. And I agree, the latter is significantly more difficult to fight.
This is one of the motivating factors that alledgedly helps create the so-called "Black Widows"; the Chechen female suicide bombers in Moscow. They are striking back in revenge for lost loved ones.
Of course, the fact that one was apprehended before detonating her bomb and has subsequently used in her defence the claim that they were drugged and brainwashed, does not help that argument.
I'm not sure where it really lies now. It's a difficult situation. I abhore the actions of the Chechen seperatists and the Russians alike. It's curious to see that Putin was elected on a platform of cracking down on the Chechens, that his popularity is still relatively high and that the majority of Russians support his hardline position. In the West, I should imagine public opinion would be screaming out for disengagement and "let them rot" attitude.
I guess that's just another difference between the Russian pysche and that of the typical Westerner.
Mr Mephisto
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