Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Mount Athos
The Greeks are probably at least as virulently antiAmerican as the Turks. They seem to have a huge, violent protest each time a high ranking American official visits.
9 posted on 07/23/2006 12:38:44 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( http://www.answersingenesis.org)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]


To: Jedi Master Pikachu
"The Greeks are probably at least as virulently antiAmerican as the Turks. They seem to have a huge, violent protest each time a high ranking American official visits."

Jedi Master Pikachu, the difference between the Greeks and the Turks is as an American political counselor of the US embassy in Athens is quoted in saying:"Greeks like inflammatory rhetoric from their politicians but responsible behavior from their governments."; in other words talk is cheap and actions speak louder then words. No matter what rhetoric you mith hear coming out of Greece, in the end when it really matters, unlike Turkey, their actions speak louder then their words. They have allied with the US in every major modern conflict including Iraq. In the present war against Iraq, thanks to the Greek government's blanket flight clearances and concessions on security issues, the crucial Mediterranean port and airfield of Souda Bay in Crete quietly handled thousands of US military flights and hundreds of ships en route to the Gulf. Greek military officers, eagerly offered their support to the US since the start of the war in the campaign against terrorism, were they were cool but correct in maintaining the flow of troops and equipment. Ankara on the other hand denied for US armored division to move through Turkey to northern Iraq and lets not forget the incident in Northern Iraq were US troops arrested Turkish military men for endangering American military operations in Nothern Iraq when they(Turkey) entered illegaly.

"Greece was one of only a handful of countries that fought alongside the United States in every major 20th century war." George W. Bush ~ 43rd

To be more specific, Greece is one of only three nations in the world, beyond the former British Empire, that has been allied with the United States in every major international conflict in the 20th/21st centuries, including World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Desert Storm, the Balkans, Afgan and Iraq.

26 posted on 08/07/2006 2:22:16 PM PDT by apro
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson