Mark Steyn raises a very frightening point:

The ideology and rationale that drove the child-killers in Beslan is the same as that motivating cells in Rome and Manchester and Seattle and Sydney.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10677436^7583,00.html

We need to do better than the NYT, etal, scolding Putin, and looking for ways to negotiate.