Government, friend or foe?
The Russian military/police agency with swift brutal force freed most of the captives of the hostage situation in a Moscow theater, they freed the ones they didn’t kill. Should anyone bow to pressures of terrorists to save some lives, not IMHO but 117 innocents killed maybe a high price to pay to stamp out terrorists. There is and will be lots of hindsight call by the media for either argument. They should have done this or that to save lives or the other side is if they didn’t do anything more lives would have been lost. I think the government and Putin in particular wanted to show the Chechnyans how far they would go to destroy them, to save face after failing for so long. But 117 dead … My hindsight call is that something else should have been tried, not negotiations, not with terrorists but some kind of military action designed to spare more lives. They pumped in poison gas to incapacitate the terrorists but it had the same effect of the hostages. Maybe the lost lives would have been more if they hadn’t done it this way and this is so much Monday morning quarter backing. I do believe the Russian troops did what they could to end the situation as best they could but the leadership wanted an easy way out of this. To those how lost something due to the fight against terrorists you have my sympathies.
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