I has invented Mattesson! I must admit: my creation still does not know how to spell "camel" . All you guys are lousy teachers. It is impossible to watch, how each and every roach pretends to be an American.

Dear Roge, yesterday I used the entire welfare check, bought Stoly, and got drunk. It is not a lot of money you sent me this month. Send more. Please, please. You beggar Armenian.

oilfieldtrash,
what you say makes a lot of sense to me, but this is only one side of a complex situation which also should be viewed from the timeline perspective. Cossack said earlier "I lived in Caucasus many years and never had a problem with Muslim faith". Well I have my own experience of living in Caucasus in predominantly muslim environment too and would strongly disagree: as soon as muslims (I generalize to define the loud majority which is most socially active) are left to develop into what they want to be as a society they turn violent, intolerant, barbaric. Need examples? Don't search too far - Chechnya was shaping itself into what we have now for almost a decade including last 3 years of an undisputed independence... We all know the results. The messages of "chechen" on this board are very informative in this respect - we tent to dismiss it as a nonsense but being very naive he reveals in very compact form the ugly truth about muslim fundamentalism. Granted, they are poor and not too smart, but they successfully compensate it with savage aggressiveness and scary birth rate...
My point is: the people in the Western countries often think Russia is trying to hide it's real agenda (the oil) behind the tails about the muslim terrorists. Well, I say the threat of terrorism from Chechnya is very real, even though it's certainly not the only reason for Russia to take measures to establish the constitutional order on it's territory...