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Originally posted by CaptainCrunch@Sep 7 2004, 07:56 PM
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@Sep 7 2004, 07:46 PM
Putin is being pretty hypocritical if he thinks that Russia has a good history of successfully dealing with terrorists and having a foreign policy that does not invite terrorism.
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He's not saying this at all. If fact in his first speech after the bombing he stated that Russia is a soft target for these terrorist thugs because they've become weak.
What he's talking about is the support the U.S. has thrown the Chechnyan's way over the last three years.
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I guess I'm unfamiliar with the support the U.S. has given Chechnyans.
Seems odd since Chechnyan rebels are believed to be funded and supported by the al Qaeda network. [/b][/quote]
You've hit the central point.
Putin is upset the USA is talking with them. By talking with them, he is presuming that is some level of support.
But he didn't say they were giving them Stinger missiles like the USA did for "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan in the 1980's.
Is he arguing about "moral support?"
Cowperson