Blame the victim? I guess yes.
Putin's comments are not important. In fact they are irrelevent. Russian stupidity is not important.
Chechen actions are everything.
"....Little public analysis has been devoted to options realistically available to Vladimir Putin in response to the massacre of schoolchildren in Ossetia. The fact is that the world has been spoiled by looking at the world through the prism of the American media....."
Read it all, bookmark the site.
http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2004/09/crossroads-little-public-analysis-has.html
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