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To: Zionist Conspirator
"This is very important stuff (though the Greeks and Armenians have been far from pro-American in the past) and people need to know about it."

I was in Greece ten years ago, and I think that most Americans misunderstand Greeks.

Greece was the country that fought the Nazis and communists longer and harder than any other country in Europe -- only to get sold out by the US to their lifelong enemies, the Turks, not 20 years later. Greeks love the idea and ideals of America, but not what the American government has become and has done to them -- and I don't blame them. Greeks are a tough independent people who don't suffer fools lightly. When the 1999 NATO bombing started, Greeks took to the streets in protest. Then Madeline Albright, who knew that the Greek economy was almost solely dependent on tourism, threatened Greece with a State Dept Travel Warning to make them shut up. It worked, but the Greeks retaliated in their own way -- they turned around all the signs that led North toward Albania and Kosovo, back toward Athens to screw up the NATO visitors.

The difference between Greeks and Muslims, is when Greeks (or Serbs) don't like you they don't mass murder American civilians. Unfortunately, in the current atmosphere of American politics, that does not work in their favor.

14 posted on 11/09/2010 9:54:50 AM PST by Bokababe (Save Christian Kosovo! http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe
Yes, I am aware of the Greek Civil War. But that doesn't change the fact that since the fall of Papadopoulos Greek politics has been very anti-American and left wing. Greeks (like the Armenians, Irish, and "palestinians") are beneficiaries of "left wing nationalism" via PASOK. And Makarios was most certainly a left winger.

The Armenians were pro-Communist for years (and Armenian nationalism had been socialist since the late nineteenth century) and the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia didn't want an independent Turkish Armenia, but for it to be annexed to the Soviet Union.

But none of this has anything to do with the legitimate points of the article. It's just ideological history as I understand it. I apologize for any mistakes.

16 posted on 11/09/2010 10:05:30 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Vayachalom vehinneh sullam mutztzav 'artzah, vero'sho maggi`a hashamaymah . . .)
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