Er, no... I suggested you might be a twit because you just suggested genocide was the solution to terrorism.
Are you seriously suggesting that all Chechens support the terrorist atrocity we've just seen? No more than all the supporters of Irish independance supported the IRA, all the supporters of Palisistinian independance support suicide bombing or all the supporters of a USA-free Middle EaSt support Al Quaeda.
And are you suggesting that all of those innocent people should be on the recieving end of an autrocity several magnitudes larger than that which has already occured?
The danger is that one sticks labels in place - evil, murderous, racist etc. Individuals may be any or all of these things, but an entire nation? The start of a very dangerous slide.
I don't agree or support in any way the action taken by the Chechen terrorists, but I do at least understand why it happened. Russia's continuing insistance on refusing to engage Chechenya in dialogue is down to their fears of what will happpen to other regions if they do. To see it simply in terms of 'some evil people came and did an evil thing' simply encourages the lack of understanding which leads to such situations in the first place.
Some Chechens are so frustrated by the situation that they carry out these autrocities - I agree with the questioner that such acts are normally own goals and rarely achieve their aim. I also agree that such acts should not be rewarded with concessions.
I do, however, believe that at some point there has to be meaningful dialogue. This is how Nelson Mandela has managed to create a South Africa that, although undoubtely beset with many problems, did not decend in to anarchy. Mandela was insightful enough to understand that without breaking the cycle of violence, there could be no chance of reconcilliation.
Where does your solution take us again?