Like we said in a previous post, did Moscow’s pro-Arab, pro-Islamist policy keep the Russian people safe from the hands of radical terrorists who use their extreme interpretation of religion as a cover for violence?

NO . . . ~Mohammed Fadhil, OpinionJournal.com

This is one of those zingers that doesn’t really zing.  It might be relevant to cite Islamic terrorist attacks on Russians as “proof” the Mid-East policy makes no difference to whether your country is attacked if the attackers were not Chechens and if conflict were not, like Kashmir, an internal political problem that has been exploited by jihadis, just as they have exploited every hot spot in the world where there are Muslims.  Though Mr. Fadhil probably does not know it, what group of prominent Americans shills for Chechen terrorism, er, peace and human rights and has ideological affinities with the very paper for which he writes this article?  What group is a Who’s Who of well-known neoconservatives and interventionists (all the big names are there: Kristol, Ledeen, Perle, Muravchik, Adelman, Abramowitz, Kagan, Podhoretz, Gaffney, Decter, Woolsey, Weigel, etc.) motivated not by love for human rights or a desire for peace in the Caucasus but a desire to undermine and weaken Russia?  Whose unwitting (?) stooge is Mr. Fadhil when he makes statements like this?