If the Chechens had set out deliberately to shame and defeat a noble cause - and there is no cause nobler than that of freedom - they could not have done any better.
"Freedom," of course, means a theocracy to Arabs. To Marxists it is Pol Pot agrarian reform. To FARC it means killing civilians with the help of the IRA to glorify communism. To ETA it's ETA-control when 80% of the population don't want them. And that's the crux of the whole thing -- who the hell would want murderers in charge of their lives??
In which direction will Putin move now? If his call for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to get international backing for his handling of the Chechen situation can be taken as a sign of his willingness to concede a role for the international community in dealing with the crisis, it is a welcome sign.
I doubt Putin would rely on the UN or the EU. He remembers how Rwandans waited for international backing. Cambodians did, too. As the Sudanese refugees are now wasting away in camps while Arab terrorists are free to roam at will. Nor is he likely to follow the example of France now wandering the globe begging for someone, anyone to help her out of her self-induced quagmire.
Nor will Putin stand idly by while Chechens invade Russia. And that has some Arabs worried that they have gone too far.
Michelle Malkin got a hat tip from Logic & Sanity for this story.
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