"Putin: Russia to tackle terrorism ‘preventively’"
President: No ‘bargaining’ with Chechens as rebel claims attacks.
So let's say the Russians find funding for Chechnyans coming from the Bronx, based in a ground-floor Tae Kwan Do studio which is also training bomb-makers in the basement. The other 6 floors of the building are apartments.
Putin decides to strike pre-emptively, and hits the place with RPGs at a time he thinks there may be a meeting going on.
47 people die, men, women and children, and another 55 are wounded.
The Russians claim that all are "militants" and "terrorists", though the hospital personnel said they looked like New Yorkers.
What would Bush do? What could he do? Without being a damned fool, that is.
Heh, heh.
Arf