Russia threatens pre-emptive military action

[Cowperson]

"As for carrying out preventive strikes against terrorist bases, we will take all measures to liquidate terrorist bases in any region of the world," Col.-Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, chief of the Russian General Staff, told reporters Wednesday.

Another player on the global pre-emptive beat, along with the USA?

Also, a photo essay of video terrorists took inside that Russian school:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,131722,00.html

Cowperson

[Lurch]

Another player on the global pre-emptive beat, along with the USA?

Good for them. The world needs another power. As Americans are so fond of saying no system works without checks and balances. :P

[Lanny_MacDonald]

This could be a great thing, or it could be disasterous! If the US and Russia work in concert, then this is awesome news. If they work independently, and are allowed to follow their own agendas, then this could be extremely dangerous. I woud hope that the UN (I know this will raise some cockles) puts together an International Terrorism Task force, using US and Russia as the primary cooperative forces, and gives them free reign to shut down terrorist cells where ever they are. This would be a massive step forward and would probably help stabalize a potentially dangerous situation.

[Looger]

uh i thought the russians have been 'pre-emptively' dealing with chechnya since like 1996.

isn't that their problem?