A plague on both your houses!

The New York Times is at least consistent:

In the eight years that they have wrestled over control of Chechnya, the Russian government and Chechen rebels have descended ever deeper into a hellhole of brutish behavior. The two sides reached a new low over the weekend in their deadly showdown at a crowded Moscow theater . . .

This is supposed to sound as principled as criticizing the FBI for the deaths at Waco, but it seems to fit the pattern of blaming the victim that has come to typify the response of the Left to terrorist attacks everywhere. Russia better be careful, or it will end up being portrayed as being as bad as Israel.