Vladimir Putin Quotes
Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace? You find it possible to set some limitations in your dealings with these bastards, so why should we talk to people who are child-killers? No one has a moral right to tell us to talk to child killers.
Some Americans and Europeans have urged Putin to solve the Chechen problem politically---to sit down and negotiate with the leaders. The Chechen terrorists have been particularly brutal killing hundreds of children at a time. Putin felt that it was easy for Americans and Europeans to tell him to negotiation with terrorist murders while they would never do so with the terrorists that had killed their people in their countries. Chechen is a province of Russia where fundamentalist Islamic terrorists mounted an armed, violent, terrorist insurrection and then spread their terrorism to other parts of Russia. Brussels was the political capital of Europe.
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, response to those Americans who have criticized Putin for taking a hard line in dealing with the Chechen Islamic terrorists
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Islamic extremists had killed thousands on Russian citizens and military men in Chechen, one of the states in Russia. At the time--before 9-11--Americans in the homeland had never been attacked by Islamic religious extremists as the Russians had. Some Americans were very critical of the Russians for using force and troops to deal with the terrorists and urged Putin to negotiate. This was Putin's reply. It was taken by many Americans as an unnecessarily hard line then. After 9-11, however, American views towards negotiations with terrorists generally resembled Putin in this quotation. Many Americans then developed much more sympathy with the Russian position on terrorism inside Russia.
He had a lifelong hatred toward the Internal Revenue Service. Finally he crashed his single engine airplane into the IRS offices, killing an IRS agent and committing suicide in a different version of suicide bombing.
The Taliban terrorists would try and kill, kidnap and hold people for ransom following a Muslim tradition dating back to the Barbary Pirates. While there is always pressure to negotiate to alleviate the immediate situation, the negotiation is in and of itself, a reward for the terrorism. Hence the general’s rigid view.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is serving as the current president of Russia since 2012, previously being in the office from 1999 until 2008. He was also prime minister from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. As of 2021, Putin is the second-longest serving European president, after Alexander Lukashenko.
