so, doing exactly what terrorists demand is going to reduce future terrorist attacks? I'd have thought that would just encourage them....
IMO, governments need to remove the attraction to terrorism by ensuring that nothing is ever, ever gained from it. And yes, having a foreign policy that isn't fundamentally evil helps a lot too.
Unfortunately for any innocent Chechnians that were peacefully seeking independence, they're basically screwed. Russia (and the rest of the world) can't conceed an inch to them, not without showing every desperate lunatic out there that terrorism produces positive results.
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