he is going to war. It feels awful: "You simply don't say no to the Americans,' said Bronislaw Komorowski, a former Polish defence minister. Others feared support for the mission could crumble as casualties were brought home.
'We thought it would be a peace mission, that he would go to help, not to fight,' said Joanna Studzinska, 28, as she waved off her husband at Wroclaw airport. 'Now I know he is going to war. It feels awful.'
There has been criticism in the US of the composition of the peacekeeping force.
'The countries involved are mostly small, poor, weak and struggling,' said Richard Betts of Columbia University's institute for war and peace studies. 'Any crumbs of attention and approval they can get from the sole superpower are useful to them.'"
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