What is the answer to radical Islam? This is NOT an anti Islam thread

[Mr Khan]

mai said:

Mr Khan said:

Few enough Americans know about Chechnya period. Even among those who know of Chechnya, the North Caucasus is all the same to them (Ossetian, Ingushetian, Dagestani, Chechen, et al). So they are Chechen, much as all middle-easterners become Arabs to us.

Hell, it was all the same to me until i took a class in Russian Politics and did a study of the 2nd Ossetian war (in 2008)

btw, what do you guys call that war?

A lot of average Joes over here as much clueless about the region as any other Joe would be, they are just "blacks" to them (which is funny because they are actually white). The fact most of the locals have predominantly teip mentality, especially youngsters, that overcomes any ethnic or national identification, doesn't help the region either as all Russians (or let's say those who doesn't belong to any teip, including assimilated locals of various descent) were forcefully expelled in the early 90s by (I believe Boston guys were among them).

>>btw, what do you guys call that war?

Maybe it's my English language conprehension failure, but I don't understand the question. What war? Call what?

Russia's war with Georgia in 2008. I call it the 2nd Ossetian War (as there was one back in the 90s, iirc)