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I know my history well enogh.

Some Greeks fought some other (Red) Greeks, 1945-1948 (and earlier)

WWII Greeks got a great deal of help from Britain - everything in the power of Britain at the time, which wasn’t enough. The Greek intervention cost Britain over 50,000 men and dozens of warships. And Greece was already at war with Italy before the British agreed to help.

Cyprus to Greece ? And the US had what to do with it ?

Americans helped Greece -

- Saving and feeding millions of refugees in the 1920’s
- Providing a second home for millions of Greeks, so much so that remittances were a major source of national income for decades.
- Saving Greece from the Reds.

My experience regarding “affection for America” is precisely the opposite, and I understand it is generally the same for any US serviceman who has been stationed in Greece, diplomats and other expats.

See above for comments on Papandreu. There were and are a heck of a lot of Papandreus.

Mixing apples and oranges. The US has been responsible for doing nothing to save 4 million Christians to die at the hands of the Muslim turks in the teens and 20s of the 20th century. read DH lawrence and some middle east oil history on this.

They hardly lifted a finger to save thousands of Christians drowning in the waters off the port of Smyrnae - read Horton's The Blight of Asia.

I agree that there are far too many Papandreous - and all of them have been trained here in the US.

Gee whiz - how does that happen...DUH?