Comments on: Passing of a Titan http://blog.heritage.org/2008/08/05/passing-of-a-titan/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:29:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Darvin Dowdy, Houst http://blog.heritage.org/2008/08/05/passing-of-a-titan/#comment-3392 Darvin Dowdy, Houst Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:10:05 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/2008/08/05/passing-of-a-titan/#comment-3392 Solzhenitsyn probably understood something that I wish our U.S. State Dept understood. And that is that Russia must operate its nation the way it sees fit. There will be mistakes made, true. Not unlike our own nation in its infancy. But after the Dubrovka Theatre siege and the Beslan School Massacre we should have approached the Russian leadership and said, "lets team up and defeat these radical jihadists". [and what a team that would've been!] Instead our pathetic state dept wagged its self-righteous finger in the Russians face and warned them to exercise restraint. That's when relations between the 2 countries began to sour. Again. I'm sure Solzhenitsyn recognized this lost opportunity. The relationship between the U.S. & Russia would've been so different today had we tried to understand what Dubrovka and especially Beslan meant to the Russian people. It was their 9/11. Darvin Dowdy Solzhenitsyn probably understood something that I wish our U.S. State Dept understood. And that is that Russia must operate its nation the way it sees fit. There will be mistakes made, true. Not unlike our own nation in its infancy. But after the Dubrovka Theatre siege and the Beslan School Massacre we should have approached the Russian leadership and said, "lets team up and defeat these radical jihadists". [and what a team that would've been!] Instead our pathetic state dept wagged its self-righteous finger in the Russians face and warned them to exercise restraint. That's when relations between the 2 countries began to sour. Again.

I'm sure Solzhenitsyn recognized this lost opportunity. The relationship between the U.S. & Russia would've been so different today had we tried to understand what Dubrovka and especially Beslan meant to the Russian people. It was their 9/11. Darvin Dowdy

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