>From: "Chris Doss" <itschris13 at hotmail.com>
>Fred Weir was soooo disappointed to discover that Chechen terrorism exists.
Good slapdown of him in the eXile, until they start getting pointlessly scatological:
You’re Not The Same, Damnit!
By Fred Hiatt
A special eXile Guest Editorial
T he State Department last month designated Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev as terrorists and put them on their international terrorist list. While there is some truth to this claim – Basayev has admitted involvement in attacks on Russian civilians – we must be careful not to confuse the Russian situation with America’s war against terrorism.
As I wrote in the Washington Post during the Dubrovka theater hostage crisis last October, while the Chechen hostage taking was deplorable, attempts to compare Russia’s "tragedy" to America’s on September 11, 2001, are cynical, repugnant, and wrong. The fact is that only around 800 people were in the theater when it was seized, while on 9/11, thousands of Americans died and thousands more were traumatized.
It’s not only numbers we’re talking about, but the actual worth of each person. In this, Russians cannot compare to Americans. The output value of each American who died or suffered on that day was somewhere between three and eight times that of the average Russian in Dubrovka. It follows that if an American is worth more, then it counts more when he dies, suffers, or feels fear. Therefore, to compare the tragedy of 9/11 to the "tragedy" of Dubrovka, Krylya and other acts of "terror" in Russia is wrong and sickening.
http://www.exile.ru/173/173050400.html
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