The Inevitable Crackdown

Today's bombing of the Moscow Metro has elicited a predictable reaction from Ivan (and Ivana) Sixpack, who suddenly yearns for the KGB's iron fist:

"It's the Chechens," said Nina Ivanovna, a 57-year-old pensioner. "They will never let us live in peace. Solzhenitsyn correctly said that we should build a Great Wall of China to keep them away from us. They should be locked away. They hate us, and they will always hate us."

Yet such repression will be impossible without inviting great...