Oh, That Other War...

In case anybody at the U.N. was paying attention, the Chechnyan mess is going on as robustly as when Yeltsin started it. How many years is this now? How many dead Chechnyans and Russians? And how many times has Chirac or ANSWER called Putin a grave threat to world peace?


In fairness, we haven't exactly been jumping down the bear's throat about it, either. But why Russia gets a pass for something as grotesque as the Chechen war has become, while the world focuses all it's attention on our far younger (and more successful at this stage) effort in Iraq, I cannot fathom.