PUTIN WATCH: The war in Chechnya is starting up again, says The Washington Post. What a sleazy war, there's abductions for ransom by Russian forces when there aren't abductions to kill people. Wouldn't it be neat if the U.N. or somebody adopted some kind of international rules for secession? Not that anybody listens to U.N. but at least then we'd have something to argue about. How did the Czechs and Slovaks do it?