Posted on 11/05/2004 4:10:31 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Just imagine if the "owner" of New York, New Jersey, also complain about the use of the names...
Or if the former Soviet republic got a call from Atlanta.....
Amazing how even disputes which have nothing to do with us become our fault.
I think the US should demand that Athens, Greece be renamed because we don't like it having the same name as Athens, Georgia.
Too bad for you, Greece. You have been extremely unhelpful in Iraq and have probably cost American lives by the refusal to let us pass through Greek territory (even though it had already been negotiated).
Payback...
My anaolgy was the US complaning about the Independent State of Samoa using the name of the US territiory of Samoa
"Greece maintains that "Macedonia" carries territorial claims on the northern Greek province of the same historic name -- the birthplace of Alexander the Great..."
But wouldn't that northern Greek province come with its northern Greek population? And if yes, then it begs the question whether "Macedonia" (or anyone else) would REALLY want the said province, given the degree of nationalistic feelings in that neighborhood. I'd say - let the Greeks have it.
While as a Greek-American, I can't and won't agree with the US on this call and think it sucks, on the big picture scale, it is the equivalent of hurt feelings,so...
Wrong!! Turkey was the unhelpful one this time around. My peeps just complained loudly as our supply planes (etc.) came and went from Crete (and elsewhere) as the pretty much damn well pleased.
We wouldn't complain, we'd just nuke 'em!
;-)
I thought Greece was pretty uncooperative, too. It has a long history of anti-Americanism, which for some reason it will simply not drop. However, I'm glad to hear that they were good about flights from Crete.
In both Greece and Turkey, it's their radical Communist element (coupled with Islamists in the case of Turkey) that seems to keep this going, but they seem unable to control it. I'm not sure it has that much popular support, but I'm far from expert on those countries.
Greek views on this topic are both silly and parochial. Time for them to accept that there is no trademark on names of cities and countries.
Signed,
A Greek American
The is Colin Powel being a complete *ss.
This is his punishment of Greece for not backing him on the absurd Cofi Anan Cyprus reunification plan.
Greece has said it will use its veto to keep the former republic of yugoslavia out of the EU until the entire issues are resolved.
Now if they had used the word "new" with no false claims to history then they might have had a chance. But now Powel is just keeping up the old communist party propaganda with this.
This is a silly loser's game on the part of the Greeks. They have a right to slap down any signs of cross-border agitation coming from the north. But spending several years threatening to go to war over the name, Macedonia?
Idiotic. NO ONE would interpret this as having designs on Greek territory if the Greeks themselves didn't raise the issue.
wrong, they have supplied ships in the gulf and have, unlike the french and germans , honored all treaties regarding staging and fly through.
This is a PERSONAL vendeta by colin powel who felt he was made to look the fool by HIS cyprus failure.
Oh, OK! So, how many troops did Greece send to Iraq?
They let the New Orleans Jazz go to Utah.
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