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Originally posted by FlamesAddiction+Sep 7 2004, 10:18 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (FlamesAddiction @ Sep 7 2004, 10:18 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Daradon@Sep 7 2004, 10:02 PM
I was wondering when this would come out. The U.S. was decrying Russia's actions against the Chechens for years, and they are still technically part of the country. Yet the American's believe it's ok to unilaterally attack a sovereign naiton halfway across the world for their own safety. The whole thing smacks of hypocracy.
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I haven't really been keeping up with this US/Chechnya thing, so I need to ask; Is the U.S. denouncing Russia's right to fight rebels in Chechnya, or are they denouncing the specific tactics?
It is a world of difference. For example; I supported the US's right to invade Afghanistan, but I disagreed with some of the the tactics, like how people were detained in Guantanomo for so long without due process.
From what I have heard, Russia has violated human rights and many conventions of war in Chechnya. I'm not talking about rogue military personel either, but government sponsored terror. In the end, it will do nothing but create more terrorism. Hell, even conventional war likelt not end terrorism, but at least it gains you allies. [/b][/quote]
America was concerned about the Russian methods of using artillary on city blocks, and leveling blocks of housing.
the Russian method harkens back to thier house to house fighting in the second world war and they've never changed.
The American's are not as much concerned about an internal rebellion as the destabilizing element that its causing.
Rumor has it that 3 tank divisions left the Moscow area today. Look for a large buildup by the Russians as they attempt to brute force a end to the confilict.