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To: Ilaine who wrote (68386)	9/9/2004 12:27:00 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) of 793928

Strange how all these intractable fault zones involve Muslims, isn't it? The Chechnya situation is a bit different. The Russians have been fighting with the Chechens since the 1700s. The fight began and continues to involve Chechen resistance to annexation. I see merit in that position. It's tit-for-tat, the Russians engage in atrocities, the Chechens fight back with terror. After centuries of strife, it's hard to say who is clearly in the right and who is clearly in the wrong, though a previously existing group's right to self-determination seems to trump the claim that the Russians have controlled the area for a sufficiently long period of time so as to lay a valid territorial claim on it. As I've said, it's a very difficult position for both parties. One in which and independent group could act as an effective arbiter. I'm certainly not reflexively taking an anti-Chechen position simply because they are Muslims. I condemn both the Russian atrocities and the Chechen's terror. In fact, both seem to engage in terror, in my view. Yup, a pox on both their houses.

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