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Europe

Czech Cabinet might collapse over BMD radar

2008-06-20

The Czech government is on the verge of a crisis. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said his Cabinet might collapse in the fall. He admitted the Cabinet lost a firm majority in Parliament over the possible deployment of a high-frequency radar of the U.S. third positioning strategic missile defense area in the Czech Republic. Environmentalist deputies did not even want to hear about it, while others insist on a nationwide referendum, which the government cannot win because 68 percent of the population is emphatically against the deployment.

No problem. Don't deploy the system; cancel it.

If Europe does not wish to defend itself, we are under no obligation to defend it for them. Those days are gone.

I don't want to see the BMD system become the new wedge in our relations. Cancel the plans, keep the system at home, and work on our own BMD.

Posted by:3dc

#3 This article is from RIA Novosti, the preferred propaganda mouthpiece of the Kremlin. So take it with a grain of salt.

Posted by: ed 2008-06-20 15:22

#2 that's what they get for dragging out the negotiations. I agree, don't make them take what they don't want. This is, after all, the same country that once said to it's picturesque, bucolic Slovak half, "You won't stay unless we give you lots of special concessions and money? Fine, go and be happy. We'll get along without you somehow." Of course, the president then was the esteemed dissident playwright Vaclav Havel, but even so.

Posted by: trailing wife 2008-06-20 15:13

#1 I bet we'd have no problems bringing it home as long as we named it the Robert Byrd Missile Defense Radar and located it in West Virginia.

Posted by: ed 2008-06-20 13:22

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