A nation must think before it acts.
The deaths of three Czech soldiers in Afghanistan this month provided both a bracing reminder of the sacrifices being made by our NATO allies in America’s longest-running war, and a counterpoint to disparaging comments about NATO’s supposed “free riders.” After Martin Marcin, Kamil Benes, and Patrik Stepanek died in a suicide attack, the Taliban boasted of their responsibility, saying they had killed or wounded “eight American soldiers” in a “tactical explosion.” It was a grim but unsurprising case of mistaken identity. The white-red-and-blue Czech flags on their uniforms can be easily confused from afar with our own soldiers’…