Andrew Crystall wrote: << The conduct of the Chechyen war by Russia in general has been frankly disgusting, has cost many Russian lives and has managed by it's incomplete effectiveness to become a continuing problem. >>
Alberto Monteiro wrote: < What should they do? Blast Chechynea back to the Stone Age? >> Andrew answered <<My being so repressive on the main population, they'rew creating as man problems are they're solving. Limited self-autonomy would help, nut there's too much paranoia about Chechynea breaking away.>> But it was tried. Chechynea reacted by attacking near-by Russian republics. <<But sending conscripted 18 and 19 year old kids into effectively a meatgrinder (experienced Chechyen rebels, who fought street-to-street and were taking out tanks with RPG launchers) as they did at several points...didn't prove very effective, and it was expensive in terms of lives. And getting all the rebels in the mountains is *very* hard...>> Agreed. Soldiers that are sent there has to be better trained. Ilana _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
