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| Powell warns Putin on terror plan |
| 2004-09-15 |
| Secretary of State Colin L. Powell warned Russia yesterday that broad new anti-terrorism moves announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin could harm the country's still-struggling democracy. Mr. Powell and Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage criticized Mr. Putin's plan to fight terror by centralizing political power. Mr. Powell said it marked a "pulling back on some of the democratic reforms" in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. "You have to find a balance between fighting terrorism in an aggressive way and also making sure that we don't undercut the institutions of state that are based on the foundation of democracy," Mr. Powell told Reuters news agency. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #5 Forget democracy. Right now, Russia = Pakistan North. A criminalized, key border state whose security services are so disloyal and out of control that the best option for us is to help Putin succeed in reining them in. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-15 12:28:01 PM |
| #4 Let the Russians do their thing for a while. This Belsan thing was so nasty I frankly have little sympathy for the Chechens. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2004-09-15 12:23:44 PM |
| #3 This is typical of Powell. Sometimes I wonder how he ever got to Chairman of the JCS. Before you can have the niceties of the rule of law, you have to tame the jungle. To do that Putin is going to have dig deep into the old KGB playbook. That means there are going to be a lot more dead jihaddists. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2004-09-15 9:03:42 AM |
| #2 Colon Bowel...What a dhimmi! Foggy Boottom is Augias Stable. Where's Hercules...? |
| Posted by: Zarathustra 2004-09-15 6:56:05 AM |
| #1 "But Mr. Powell reiterated yesterday that the Kremlin must seek a political settlement with separatist rebels from Chechnya, thought to be behind the Beslan atrocity and other strikes on Russian military and civilian targets." I call bull shit. No settlements with baby killers. No settlement with islamo-fascists. No settlment with the Jihadi. Only death and distruction is their due. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-15 6:51:27 AM |