John, I repeat -- what car bombings? There have not been any car bombings.
You sound as if you had been hanging around in Russian internet newsgroups.
Personally, if I was Boris Yeltsin I would hammer those suckers untill they bleed. I would drop an 80 mega- ton thermonuclear bomb right on Grozny...then lay down a carpet of chemical weapons and gasses on the dug in suckers in the mountains. Finish the job by dumping anthrax into their back 40, and call it a day. The Romans and Sciprio knew what it would take to end the trouble from Carthage,and they did the job.
Personally, the only people I sympathize with in this whole mess are the ordinary Chechens I know -- the schoolteachers, the doctors, the farmers, the busdrivers, the secretaries...They have suffered both from the depredations of their own home-grown bandits (more Chechens, incidentally, have been kidnapped than Russians or foreigners), and from the misplaced vengeance of the Russian generals. And you would drop a thermonuclear bomb on them?!
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