Public shames Czechs into staying in Kuwait
Czech soldiers who accepted an offer to return home from Kuwait if they "did not feel ready" for a US-led war against Iraq have come in for huge public criticism.
1989 is sufficiently recent that the Czech's have not yet become Europeanized.
The army reports that soldiers, stung by the reaction, are volunteering by the dozen and another 130 will be on their way to Kuwait this weekend.
It is possible that this Chem Warfare unit will make a greater contribution to the US led effort than the French Army would have were it on our side.
Posted by: JAB 2003-01-24 |