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. |