*Looks like they've finally recovered their time-honored inner Czechness, and given up on that bold, universalist, Vaclav-Havel era human-rights moralizing.
http://euobserver.com/24/31842
"Italy and Czech Republic back Gaddafi despite bloodbath"
(...)
"The Czech Republic has also warned against speaking out in favour of human rights in Libya.
"Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg said the EU should not "get involved too much" and that high-minded EU appeals would only serve to "prove our own importance".
"If Gaddafi falls, then there will be bigger catastrophes in the world," he told journalists in the EU capital on Sunday. "It's no use for anyone if we intervene there loudly, just to prove our own importance."
(((Maybe he figures that the Czechs are SO tiny and unimportant that nobody will remember how they destroyed the stability of the Cold War.)))
via "Fistful of Euros," which is waxing wroth about Europe and Libya instead of moaning over Eastern Europe, for a while anyhow
http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/europe-and-the-world/techniques-of-the-counter-revolution/
