Sunday, September 05, 2004

A Wake Up Call For Russia

The deliberate evil of the brutal attacks against children will be a wake up call for Russia and Europe as well. President Putin blamed his government for projecting weakness. Stating that (and I paraphrase here) that weakness invites attack. What a harsh lesson. France was stunned that their journalists were abducted and threatened. Why do these countries act surprised? Appeasement has never worked. It never worked against governments bent on cruelty and it certainly doesn't work against the blind hatred of Muslim extremists. Unfortunately the cost of this lesson for Russia is the death of their most innocent.
For a well thought out thesis please see The Daily Whim: The Child Killers and the Gates of Hell