I see my question about where the Chechens should go has not been answered.

If the idea is that they are out of place where they are because they are Muslims, that is not true. Many of the republics surrounding Chechnya also have a majority of Muslims. The fact is that there is no place on earth that has people who are more like the Chechens than the region in which they live.


Poland was already slated to have a missile defense system installed there, long before what just happened in Georgia and South Ossetia. A lot of Russia's behavior has been a response to this. They don't believe that it's purely defensive in nature and that it's not going to be aimed at them. They have good reason to believe this.