Russia to use pre-emptive strike against radical islamists

[The empressof all]

Did I just hear this right on CNN? I thought they said Russia will begin pre-emptive strikes against radical islamists around the world---

Whoa folks----this is really scary

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Hey, we ALWAYS set the standard!!

[BayouBengal07]

2. Well now no one saw THIS coming.

I'm waiting for India to preemptively nuke Pakistan...just in case. Or NK to flatten Seoul before they can strike first.

[DrWeird]

3. Wouldn't it just be emptive?

Because they've been bombing the shit out of "islamists" for years now.

[ugarte]

4. Yep, how can Bush possibly argue?

So when Russia attacks Georgia or Uzbekistan, both places where we have troops...

Uh-oh.

[Swamp Rat]

5. Two minutes to Midnight!

[cprise]

6. That's not what the Russians are saying

CNN is just hyping this in a Bush-compatible way.


Here is what te Moscow Times says:

The military reiterated a threat Wednesday to carry out pre-emptive strikes on terrorists anywhere in the world, while the Federal Security Service announced a $10 million award for information leading to the arrest or killing of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov and warlord Shamil Basayev.

Talking tough after recent terrorist attacks killed more than 450 people, General Staff chief Colonel General Yury Baluyevsky said Moscow is ready to destroy terrorists anywhere it finds them.

"As for making pre-emptive strikes at terrorist bases, we will make every effort to liquidate terrorist bases in any region of the world," he told reporters after meeting with NATO's commander for Europe, General James Jones.

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2004/09/09/001.html


They are going after "terrorists" not "radical Islamists". CNN seems to be re-interpreting the facts rather creatively to create a religious war where none exists.

[NervousRex]

7. Ahhh, time for pootie-poot...

to put the soviet union back together.....stop the world, I wanna get off.

[Aidoneus]

8. that's not what he said

Basically, he used coded language to tell the country of Georgia that they're probably fucked.

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Pandora's Box has been opened.

We can thank the idiot-in-chief for this. He set diplomacy aside and so shall every other country. Peace on earth? Forget it! Bush has screwed the world.

[sweetheart]

10. What is the truth?

The first question in a civilized society must be:
"WHAT IS THE TRUTH?"

The truth, is that bush's path, the path of aggressive war, is a
proven failure in global relations throughout human history.
It was wrong at nuremburg, with horrible horrible weapons and
firebombings killing millions.

Russia is much more serious
about war than america, IMO, and is a nuclear-first country, to
be frank, i'm not so sure that is not a bad idea. Having weapons
being a coward, like bush is, begs a vacuum for an arms race.
If putin is really at war with an army, then nuclear means may very
be the way to subdue.... just, i don't think it is an army at all.

Nuclear strikes on pakistan could very well radicalize islam.
I can't help but note the "urban myth" of the 2 nuclear wars in the
middle east, the first, a local war, and the second, a global
transnational war, like at the end of terminator 3, in retaliation
for training terrorists for attacks, eye for an eye escalation.

And the second nuclear war happens very close to the first.
The trails are in the sky, like spiderwebs, these
ballistic missile trails crossing the sky in their southward
flight over the coast, fired far to the north in the arctic,
coming south from the north poll, lucifer's threads.
It has finally come, the day the shitheads used their nukes,
the day the boursouis obliterated the proletariet,
Marx's prophecy has come, and the revolution is imminent.

With the cheapness of guidance technology and explosives, there
is no limit to the degeneration.

It strikes me that the islamists seem to have a very reasonable
message. Take away your army and stop killing our peoople.
There is no honor, no christianity in occupying another country
for corporate empire, by an industrial complex of nuclear
weapons terrorists.

Then we are all terrorized by ourselves and the terrorists are
ultimately victorious. Mr. Putin is a democrat, and bush the
plutocrat, between them terrorizing the planet with armageddon.
Rather than be vulnerable, open, loving, tender and showing a
magnificent gift of luck. I pray for you mr. Putin. You have
not used nukes yet. I pray you never do.