On Thursday I predicted that Belgium would waffle and wiggle out of its shamelss abrogation of responsibility to its NATO allies. I was right!
Belgium offered a compromise Saturday to end a bitter dispute within the NATO alliance over providing military aid to Turkey in advance of a possible war against Iraq.Nice try, but I still say that everything in Brussels is little. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 15, 2003 10:06 PMPrime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said Belgium, France and Germany would endorse a U.S. proposal for such help if NATO makes clear the aid is defensive in nature and it must not be seen as making the alliance a participant in war preparations against Iraq.