The road to the toilet

Federal troops won another victory over terrorists. In the Dzherakhsky district of Ingushetia, the units of the 58th Army with aiming fire from helicopters carried out the target of the target under the ominous name "burial ground". As a result of the ground operation, the stronghold of Thaba-Yerda militants was destroyed. In any case, the Hattabas will not become there for a long time: the terrain is poisoned by the life of our valiant officers and soldiers. And somewhere there, in the field, in order to convince the nucleant, an inscription is laid out, the trace of the heroes on the enemy land: "If not we, then who." Without a question mark, because there are no questions and is not expected.

In fact, who else? Who, if not we, would have guessed to use the Thaba-Yerda temple, a medieval monument of Christian culture, built almost on the personal order of Queen Tamar, under a slow-minded place? Who would practice the accuracy of shooting at the burial ground? Examples from recent history once or two were expected: we and the Taliban who have fitted tanks for firing according to ideologically harmful sculptures. In both cases, they shot without a miss ...

However, there is a difference.

The simple -minded Afghans shot the unique statues of the Buddha in Afghanistan, but by the will of the voluntary Taliban leadership by the will of them. We have the opposite the contrary: the lower ranks are engaged in creative amateur performances, shooting or beating people and cultural monuments. And the authorities, especially the highest leadership, have long been rushing between the desire to win the endless war and look humanly at the same time. Following the next stripping, a campaign to launder the image of the federal troops in the eyes of the local population is solemnly announced. Following the looters, the prosecutor’s investigators come. And then the interdepartmental disassembly begins: the army is accused of police, the director of the FSB conciliatively reports that the Chechens in Russian military uniforms raged in the same Assinovskaya ... Without listening to the cunning Chekist hints, the police "bear" Gryzlov announces that the special forces used "tough but necessary" measures. And the Chekist Minister of Defense Ivanov is indignant: they say, the successful the group acts, the louder the conversations about the withdrawal of the troops.

Ivanov pronounces the hidden. You can not wage war and at the same time punish soldiers for looting and barbarism. The Tolstoye Haji Murat , which mentioned the temple, packed with Russian soldiers, is an example of malicious literary capitulary, slander, betrayal. So you can’t fight. Or a hot iron with an admixture of feces to burn the entire area - or withdraw troops. This is understood by any beggar bribery at the bloc, any riot police, any foreman of the army. This is also understood as generals like the Little Delinsky, but they have a different role: in the complete absence of a political decision on Chechnya, they themselves, at their own peril and risk, work with the exhausted local population. And destroy, and build, and kill, and express condolences, and give orders, and punish for execution.

The army is already tired of it. Deadly fear and mortal anger to the enemy invisible, hated by the whole district: on non -Christ and Christian temples. If this goes on, the reviving army will soon attack the commanders. For universal brutality is the main sign of any small victorious war. The stronger the wild, the closer the elusive victory.