Heyyo,
Yeah, I think the main problem with this hatred starts off as kids, cause some parents bring up their kids to be racist against different ethinick backgrounds, religion, or even counties. This is why some people seem soo thick-headed, to them they're not think-headed, they're taught that's the right thing...
If you watch the David Chapelle show, he even poked fun at people being braught up with racisim with the old black dude skit.
I also don't think that rebels are the voice of the country, cause in most cases it's just a... hmm, the word's not coming to me.. oh! extremists. Like the Jihad n' such. I also doupt that Saddam was the true voice of Iraq, cause the people seemed pretty happy when they tore down his statue... Let's hope that bush doesn't try to control Iraq's oil, cause if he does, I bet Iraq will fight to reclaim its oil....
I for one would vote kerry for pres, cause yeah, bush has turned into a war-monger, and I know some people who are voting for bush for pres cause he as experience... but to me that doesn't make sense, cause they're in Cali right? n' they voted for Arnold... who won by populairty, I dunno if he has big political experience... I also think that kerry won't start more wars n' stuff, cause he seems like a man of peace. Ack, better stop before this thread becomes a kerry vs bush thread.
anywho, back to the topic: I also believe that they're fighting for freedom. It's like moving out of your parents house, you've become an adult, you no longer need to rely on anyone. Same deal with the Chechnyans, just on a much more grander scale.
I don't think Russia would give up Chechnya without a fight, cause those Russians love to fight. So far, I dunno a single country that was a colony that won it's indipendence through diplomacy, instead of war... there's Canada (inna way, cause it was a colony of france, n' then england, n' so on...), and the States, and Vietnam, and the checks. (I'm not sure how accurate my info is, there's probably more examples, but I only got like, a C- in social studies on past wars n' stuff like that...
) This feels like a repetition of past events, just different places, n' different countries.
But have you heard about the Russianr military training camps? they litterally turn their soldiers into mindless killing machines. I read a newspaper article about a young married couple, and the military forced the man to join the military, and his wife tried to find him n' bring him back home, she couldn't find him for a couple of months, but when she did, n' braught him back home she said, "he was never the same." They like, transformed him...
So yeah, I hope that this won't be as massive as bush's campaign on terror, but I don't see this being anything less than a short war...