The Biden administration was right to warn Russia of a potential attack. The U.S. distinguishes between civilians and combatants, even if our enemies don’t.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by VASILY PRUDNIKOV/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Fire rises above the burning Crocus City Hall concert venue following a terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, March 22. There is some cruel irony in the fact that Russia, which has been the perpetrator of so many terror attacks in recent years from Syria to Ukraine, was itselfon Friday night. Heavily armed marauders attacked Crocus City Hall, a concert venue in Moscow, killing at least 115 people and injuring 100 more.
Putin’s goal is to attain imperial glory for himself as a latter-day czar, no matter the cost to the long-suffering Russian people. Now, rather than going after his actual enemies, he may well try to find some way to pin the Moscow attack on Ukraine and the United States and use it to justify further assaults on innocent Ukrainians.The Kremlin’s failure to stop an ISIS-K attack comes only a few months after the U.S.
” and all states should have an obligation to hunt them down. Just because Russia and Iran are complicit in terrorism of their own doesn’t mean that America should be complicit in terrorism against Russian or Iranian civilians.I have to admit that my initial concern, when I first heard about the terror attack in Moscow, was that Ukrainians might have been responsible. I am very glad they were not, because nothing would delegitimize the Ukrainian cause faster than complicity in terrorism.
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