Long War: Pacifists universally utter this piece of advice to their hated military protectors: Declare peace and bring the troops home. Nowhere has this advice been followed more often than in the ongoing wars between Russia and Chechen jihadists. After years of fighting, the First Chechen War was declared over by the Kremlin in 1996 and troops were brought home, even though victory had not been achieved. At the time the Chechens warned that it wasn't over. In 1999 the bad guys invaded a neighboring Russian Republic, which even the war weary Russian public understood to be unacceptable because the Chechens would grow stronger and stronger until a huge war became inevitable. Reluctantly, the Kremlin shipped troops back to the Caucasus region and a Second Chechen War ensued. By 2007 opinion polls showed that 70% of Russians were clamoring for peace at any price, even though conditions on the ground meant that peace was not possible. Bowing to public pressure, in 2009 peace was declared a second time. Russian troops were brought home and counter-insurgency operations brought to a halt. The bad guys warned that it wasn't over.
2010 saw a steady escalation of Chechen terror strikes inside the Russian Republic. On the streets of Moscow, armed gangs of Russian youths have been battling immigrants from the Caucasus region on an almost daily basis, inflaming tensions on both sides. Yesterday a jihadist suicide bomber killed about 40 people in an airport outside of Moscow. There is no doubt that a Third Chechen War will be launched at some point in the not too distant future.
Peace is achieved when the good guys win, not when the good guys declare victory. Pacifists have caused more bloodshed than all the generals put together.
Monday, January 24, 2011
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