The Russian Horror

What little I managed to catch of the horror at the Moscow school was, of course, extremely disturbing. But you knew that it would end in much death. That's a) the Russian way and b) definitely Putin's M.O.

It's horrible that these innocent children and other were engulfed in this. I don't excuse the terrorists. Trust me on this.

But while Russia was very willing to have us see this on the news, Putin never allows much Western coverage (and the American media isn't exactly hot on the sniffer trail anyway) of the extreme horrors and brutality in Chechnyan where Russia exacts terror each and every moment of the way. The crime? Russia wants to retain Chechnya, and the citizens of Chechnya do not want that. Democracy Putin and Bushie style.

Anyone who thinks that we haven't behaved very much like Putin towards Chechnya (and his career was built on the body count there), aren't hated because of Bush's love and partnership with his "Putey-Put" (Bush's nickname for him), and that Moscow's horror can't play out here directly because of the Bush-Putin love affair, is sadly, tragically really, blind, stupid, and dead of mind. The Chechnyan issue for Muslims is every bit as central as the Palestinians.

The Bush coalition is taking direct and deliberate steps to drive hatred and death rather than prevent it. Talk of democracy and freedom and all that happy horseshit are just that. No - wait. Horse shit has some value in decomposition.