[lbo-talk] Nation editor KvH on Putin & Chechnya etc

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 13 13:25:47 PDT 2004


"The terrorists...told us that their own children have been killed by Russians and they have nothing to lose. I asked one of them how they could put the lives of our children in danger like this. He answered that no one asked his opinion about anything when his children were being killed." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Ordinary people find the need for violence as they lose their identities. So it's only the threat to people's identity that makes them avowed to terrorism... terrorists... Hijackers, these are people minus identity. They are determined to make it somehow, to get coverage, to get noticed." --Marshall McLuhan

----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Henwood To: lbo-talk Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 7:32 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] Nation editor KvH on Putin & Chechnya etc

[Chris Doss, Peter Lavelle, any comments?]

The Nation - September 27, 2004

Putin's War

by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL

The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Beslan resulted in unfathomable human suffering. More than 300 children, parents and teachers died in the gruesome fifty-two-hour siege that began when heavily armed Chechens--and possibly other guerrillas from the Caucasus--stormed Middle School No. 1. This unconscionable slaughter of the innocents came just days after a bomber--most likely one of the "black widows," women who have lost husbands, brothers or sons at the hands of Russian forces in Chechnya--blew herself up at a Moscow subway station, killing ten and wounding scores of others, and the August 24 crashes of two airliners, apparently blown up by terrorists. snip~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`



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