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To: Aric2000
Aric, you are aware that Smyrna was put to the flame 3 days after the Greek army withdrew right?

Perhaps the civilians did it? Right?

Case in point, we (Greeks) are not without blood, but to say we came evern CLOSE to the organized/massive massacres out Turkish neighbours commited is SILLY.

They annihilated an entire island for Christ's sake.
90 posted on 08/31/2003 1:56:51 AM PDT by Phatheon
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To: Phatheon
Annihilated an entire Island, I assume you are talking about Cyprus?

If so, you have been reading WAY too much propaganda, and not enough ACTUAL history.

I will leave it at that.

When one side blames the other, and then Blows what that side did, COMPLETELY and ABSOLUTELY out of all possible proportions, then you have to sit back and figure out what the ACTUAL history looks like.

The Greeks have hated the Turks for forever, and the Turks have hated the Greeks since forever, bur the Turks don't run around screaming genocide at the top of their lungs at the drop of a hat. Because the Turks have the common sense to know what an ACTUAL genocide is, whereas the Greeks seem to whine a lot about it, but are really clueless as to what it means.

Or so it seems to me.

I couldn't care less about who did what to whom in war, war is hell, as it should be.

To burn a city that they had just captured, with all of it's supplies etc, makes absolutely NO tactical sense, you may think that Turks are that stupid, but I KNOW better.

The citizens burned that city down themselves, in order to keep the Turkish troops from getting those supplies, and the greeks have used it as a propaganda tool ever since.

Greeks may allow their anger to make them stupid, but I know that Turks do not, they use their anger, focus it, they do NOT waste it.

Yes, I tire of all this crap from the Greeks, you are all a bunch of whiners as far as I am concerned.

Your hatred consumes you, the Turks come in and defend themselves and the next thing we know the Greeks are attacking and whining again.

Sad, just sad, all those that did the killings, burned the city, raped, pillaged and plundered are all now safely dead. It is time to learn from it, so that it won't happen again, and move on to the future.

By concentrating so hard on the past, you will be doomed to repeat it, and if it repeats, then you will really whine about it, oh, and some people, YOUR people will die.

So, move on for god's sake, and cut it out with the whining.

The ACTUAL guilty parties are ALL DEAD, so MOVE ON!!!
92 posted on 08/31/2003 10:49:31 AM PDT by Aric2000 (If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
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