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If they were really to "get us", we would have something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_scho
by vl 15y ago
If they were really to "get us", we would have something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis
(But then they know that response would be really asymmetrical).
- fractallyte 15y agoYou're right, but this is a terribly inappropriate example. The 'terrorists' in this case were holding Beslan School to ransom. No one expected that the Russians (fascists in every sense of the word) would put all their effort into securing a Pyrrhic victory. Sorry this is so off-topic, but someone had to stand up for Chechnya - one of the most damaged, brutalized, traumatized, forgotten countries on Earth, a blight on the 'ideals' of every 'civilized' nation.
- vl 15y agoWhatever your view on the political situation in Russia and at this tragedy, it's not the point. The point is that this accident demonstrates that terrorists have low-tech and high-casualty methods available at their disposal which they choose not to employ for whatever reasons.