After the terrorists began
killing hostages, the russian army moved in, followed quickly by
political vultures.
"I suspect that Putin's immediate concern will have been to be seen to be strong rather than be seen to be negotiating," said Alex Standish, editor of Jane's Intelligence Digest.
"And if that means sacrificing civilians caught up in the middle, I don't suspect that is the key issue as far as Putin is concerned," he said.
Putin wanted to negotiate, it was the terrorists who started the shooting (it would seem the hostages began running when a terrorist bomb went off accidentally, the terrorists then started shooting hostages prompting the russian army to move in to rescue the hostages, but information is very piecemeal). But hey, why NOT blame Putin.
"But we also would like to know from the Russian authorities how this tragedy could have happened,"
Not from Jane's, but the Dutch Foreign Minister, Bernard Bot (not a maker of jellybeans). The Dutch wouldn't want to ask the Chechen rebels why some of their suicide units were attacking schools, or ask Al Qaeda why they were assisting in such attacks. No, the Dutch will ask the Russians because the Russians aren't likely to blow up Dutch schools regardless of how stupid Bernard Bot is.
"It is unacceptable, incomprehensible, senseless," said U.N. Children's Fund Executive Director Carol Bellamy. "It is time to take stock, to take a long hard look at our world and how it is treating children. If we don't respect the sanctity of childhood, then we have nothing."
Our world is treating children okay. It's the fucktard terrorists who are blowing them up. Children wearing mock suicide bomber belts are acceptable in UN run refugee camps, something that doesn't bother anybody working at the Nobel Peace Prize winning U.N Children's Fund. The Islamic world is the one with the problem.
Goe, hasn't seen anything stupid from the French on this... yet.
