Originally Posted by hill0118";p=&quot

links on this topic. While the terrorists must be brought to justice, it has to be done right. If the Russian government starts shooting innocent Chechens they will become the bad guys and they will justify the rebel's cause.

Just because terrorists won't follow the rules it doesn't mean the Russian soldiers can't. By commiting human rights abuses they just lower themselves to the terrorists levels.

However, after it is confirmed who is a terrorists and who is not, any who are proven to be with them should be shot, like I said before. But Putin cannot do it drasticly. He has to be sure he does it the way a responsible democratic country does it, not the way a dictator does it.