Stan at Logic & Sanity: School seized in Russia reads Russian and is translating, summarizing and blogging the details of this unfolding atrocity from the Russian wires whenever a new item surfaces.
Earlier today, the animals who did this released 26 hostages. They still hold and threaten to kill hundreds .... of children.
Here's what the hostages they released look like:
The next time somebody tells you that negotiation and appeasement are the way to work with the subhuman minds who would deliberately do this to children, remember that this is the reality that trumps their fantasy.
Oh, and when you vote, think carefully about which candidate seems ready to deal with an enemy who thinks nothing about doing something like this. Because this is the enemy we will have to defeat.
Posted by Vanderleun at September 2, 2004 1:39 PMThe story about this in the Seattle Times called the people who are doing this "fighters". I can think of a lot of names for people who hide behind children, but fighters isn't one of them.
Posted by: Ken J at September 2, 2004 2:21 PMIf I were a lefty, this would be about the time I brought up Abu Ghraib.
Because it's the same, right? Hostage-taking of civilians including women and children = panties on the head. Right?
Posted by: Steve in Houston at September 2, 2004 3:48 PMMore and more I think that's how the clinking clockwork of their minds revolves.
Posted by: Van der Leun at September 2, 2004 4:13 PMSo what is the appropriate response when your husband and Brothers have been shot by the agents of a powerful county?
Ending the lives of children is immoral, but actions of this magnitude are the point of most leverage.
Posted by: dintymoore at September 2, 2004 8:50 PMThe inappropriate response would be to take actions that invite said powerful country to start incinerating your citizens in wholesale lots.
Posted by: Van der Leun at September 2, 2004 10:20 PMCanned Stew thinks that the terrorsists actions are understandable. Heh. They just screwed up big time. If you want Putin to get all medieval on the Chechens, (any more than the Russians already are) this is the way to do it.
VdL has it right. Taking school children hostage is not the way to make friends or influence people.
Posted by: Eric Blair at September 3, 2004 5:05 AMThey already do this. Have been the last ten years. Now what do you do?
Posted by: Chechen at September 3, 2004 5:13 AMListen, you fuck. Putin "got medieval" on Chechens in 1999 and has never stopped since. The difference is, they don't allow independent media in there, so you don't see the pictures.
Posted by: Chechen at September 3, 2004 5:16 AM"The difference is, they don't allow independent media in there"
Chechen, why don't you dumb shits take some pictures?
The fact that you can't sit silently for even a moment in shame for what your countrymen have done today disgusts me.
Posted by: lenrd at September 3, 2004 8:48 AMwell said lenrd
Posted by: Observer at September 3, 2004 3:08 PMI rescind what I wrote earlier - these people are monsters. End them.
I'm still bothered that I don't understand why it happened. Simply saying, "They're the bad guys," isn't really satasfying. Here's what I really want to know - what mistake was made (by whom) that let it get this far.
Posted by: dintymoore at September 3, 2004 9:27 PM
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