The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Russian crashes: an opening for alliance?
It is too early to tell whether the nearly simultaneous passenger plane crashes in Russia were an act of terror, although one definitely gets the same feeling that we got when watching that second plate hit the World Trade Center. We do know that on the second plane a hijack signal was sent to ground control.
If it is indeed Islamist terror, perhaps this is a golden opportunity for the United States to make a case to the Russians that it is time for a new alliance. Russia's support for Iran's nuclear program to date has been problematic to US diplomats to say the least. Perhaps this tragedy, if it is indeed an act of terror, will drive home to President Putin the folly of supporting countries that are clearly behind state-sponsored Islamic terror. And then perhaps we can together get this Iranian thing under control.
If it is indeed Islamist terror, perhaps this is a golden opportunity for the United States to make a case to the Russians that it is time for a new alliance. Russia's support for Iran's nuclear program to date has been problematic to US diplomats to say the least. Perhaps this tragedy, if it is indeed an act of terror, will drive home to President Putin the folly of supporting countries that are clearly behind state-sponsored Islamic terror. And then perhaps we can together get this Iranian thing under control.
