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A tale of two Vaclavs.(Letter from Prague)

"Which is the most neutral country in the world? Czechoslovakia. It refuses to intervene even in its own internal affairs." So went an anecdote I heard twenty years ago in communist-era Prague. But now it is June 2007. The Czechs joined NATO in 1999 and the EU in 2004, and President George W. Bush has visited Prague to make his case for the U.S.-built anti-missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland to be built by 2012 to cope with threats from rogue states such as Iran. Formal bilateral negotiations are only just beginning; it remains unclear whether this anti-ballistic system can work or how it relates to NATO's plans or whether the U.S. Congress will actually fund it. ...

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