US radar in the Czech Republic

American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will today sign an agreement in Prague for the stationing of a radar station that will form part of the US's missile defence shield in the Czech Republic. Around 60 percent of Czechs oppose the project, much to the disappointment of the liberal daily Mlada fronta Dnes: "Let us look to Germany, which has a pacifist stance and where anti-Americanism is a matter of good form. Yet no one there is calling for the closure of the American military bases, because they create jobs. It will be the same in the Czech Republic. ... Besides, what could be more in the Czechs' interest than the Americans providing us with the ability to defend ourselves for free."

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