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oh i suppose its not to hard for me to imagine what the purgings are really like. Like i said, the russian situation in Chechen is a lot like vietnam, the russians dont really want to be there, and teh chechens want them out. The chechens blow up some innocent civilians, the russians are infuriated, they torture/kill some chechen POW's, and pretty soon, both sides are commiting terrible atrocities. Also, I would like to point out, that if its ok for America to lash out and declare war on terror(after they were attacked), then why is it not ok for russia to do the same thing? The only difference is that russians are not delcaring war abroad, they are concentrating pretty exclusively, to my knowledge, on the chechen rebel. So what if they had resumed diplomacy? Terror attacks would have continued till chechen became its own independent country, and russians are not willing to allow that to happen. So should russia have done nothing in retaliation for the Dagestan Campaign? Would doing nothing solve anything? Or would it cost more innocent lives? I know that war is never the right answer to anything, but we are all human after all. Our views conflict, so the views of the nations we live in conflict. And finally, it reaches the point where we fight, because our views conflict. That is how it has always been, and I doubt that will ever change.