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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (55252)10/28/2002 6:44:05 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
I'm inclined to think the Russian government completely messed up and did a Kursk. I wonder whether some negotiating, sending in food, water, fresh air, toilets and stuff might not have helped matters more

I think Al Qaeda has irrevocably changed the calculations that all countries will make when facing a hostage situation, especially one where the terrorists claim the Islamist mantle themselves ("we love death more than you love life"). When you have to figure that the terrorists will be just as pleased to kill their hostages (and themselves) as not, what is an acceptable risk to take changes markedly. Putin gets this; as he has said, "We are as dust to them."
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