Kasz216 said:
I wouldn't really say it was the same result. The russians killed 1/4th of their population and expelled them from their land for like 40 years. This is also assuming we believe the russians that it was those rebels. If you study the Russian Chechynian conflict... it's really hard to find a "good guy." Imagine the Palestine VS Israel conflict except Israel constantly ignored human rights, indiscriminatly kill and even go out of there way to kill human rights activists.
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The deportations you speak of happened during the Soviet period while Josef Stalin was in charge. To understand the circumstances under which the deportations took place I would suggest reading here or any other numerous sources.
http://www.massviolence.org/The-Massive-Deportation-of-the-Chechen-People-How-and-why
By the way your comparisons between the USA getting attacked and Russia invading and then being attacked are flawed.
Until this very day there has been no proof that Afghanistan has had anything to do with 9/11. Furthermore the bombers that the USA itself states took part in the attack were mostly Saudi nationals.
The Chechnia situation would be more comparable to a state in America attempting to secede and the US government using force to prevent it from doing so.
Now personally I'm not saying Russia or the Chechens are right but to compare that situation to what the USA has done in the name of fighting terrorism is laughable and a great distortion of the facts.
And regarding the recent bombings, they were senseless and will have the opposite effect to the one that the bombers were hoping for. It will only serve to unite Russians behind their leadership and will not alter Russia's policy besides them increasing security.
