Russians did right!

[CMonster]

I have to say that I admire the way the Russians dealt with the Moscow theater hostage situation. While I abhor the carnage and deaths of the innocent, I believe that this is the way in which terrorists should be dealth with. Call them terrorists, kidnappers, freedom fighters -or whatever you like, this kind of force is ultimately the only language they seem to understand.

The US should take a lesson here.... oh wait, there was Waco

Witnesses said the group stormed the Palace of Culture of the Podshipnikov Zavod at about 9:05 p.m. (1700 GMT) on Wednesday night, fired several shots into the air and refused to let anyone leave the theatre

Um when compairing this to waco are you talking about the residents or what the ATF did ??

[super gerbil]

they did the right thing, still many innocent people got killed.

[Knothead]

The Russians did the right thing. They did the only thing they COULD do, IMO. The Chechnian hostage-takers were terrorists, and sadly, terrorism depends on the taking of innocent life as the means to its end.

As far as Waco went, the BATF and FBI were the terrorists in that situation. I continue to be amazed that they got off scot-free after the acts they commited on their fellow Americans.

[SPEEDO]

If they didn't do what they did I think those people may have killed everyone including themselves. It seems like a way of life (No pun intended) for some of these people..............

SPEEDO

[OuTpaTienT]

Yup.

[ClubMed]

Maybe if the Russians had allowed the Chechens to become independent during the initial political phase of this conflict a lot of the useless killings would have been avoided on both sides.

This is how Russians fight terror, or maybe this is how terrorists are created?

[CMonster]

The Waco thing was an attempt illustrate that the US government is capable of taking a hard line approach to things at times - now if they would only learn to do it under the proper circumstances.

[Knothead]

Originally posted by CMonster
The Waco thing was an attempt illustrate that the US government is capable of taking a hard line approach to things at times - now if they would only learn to do it under the proper circumstances.

I must disagree, CMonster, (with all respect).

The Waco incident was an example of gov't agencies getting completely out of hand.... as in, a bunch of macho a-holes (the BATF and the FBI), on the taxpayer's dime, deciding that their manhood was being threatened by a bunch of people who were exercising their rights.

Well, okay, the Koresh group could have handled it better, but still...the BATF smoked 'em! MURDERED THEM!! Men, women, and little children!!!

And for reasons that to this day have never been justified, let alone explained!

The so-called "hard line approach" was basically our dim-bulb macho wannabe Attorney General Janet Reno, who should have been held responsible, and locked behind bars for her betrayal of her Constitutional Oath.

/end rant. sorry.

[korgul]

I agree that they did the right thing, but 90 innocents killed. Could they not have found an easier way to take out the kidnappers? Something, anything.