Posted on 02/16/2010 1:04:10 PM PST by jpl
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?
LOL!
If it wants to leave Europe to sink back into third world hellhole status to maintain its absurd free lunch fantasies for five more minutes, it is free to do so. But if it wants to be in a grown up club it has to act like a grown up.
Soros is a Hungarian.
What a strange and divisive thread this is.
And any number of posters seem to not know the difference between the EU (as a political alliance) and the monetary eurozone. The UK is part of the EU, but not the eurozone. Greece could leave the eurozone and still be a EU member.
The latter would be good and welcome. No bailout for the cheating, socialist bloodsuckers!
Greek with a name like Schwartz? Try German-Jewish? Besides it is pronounced Shorosh and Greeks dont's have "sh".
Europeans have never gotten along. It’s only a matter of time before another tyrant comes to power over there.
......a natural union .....
Actually, history teaches that the union is the result of a war of aggression by the same northeastern states in disrepute and responsible for mega problems today.
Perhaps everything you say is true but...... a start, an initial trial has been made to solve problems even more enormous.
History, that takes years and years by the way, will give a verdict. Insisting on short term perfection is a losing proposition.
Thanks. I would have had to look up the definition if you hadn’t already posted it!
It is a real word, and if you had a chance to take some history courses in college you would have come across it. It is not as overarching as saying the EU is sovereign over Greece, but suzerainty does imply a significant loss of independence.
It is amazing that this Lisbon "Treaty" rammed down the throats of Europeans includes such a provision. I am curious what else is in that document.
Some of our big financial institutions needed to be bailed out by our government. Most have hurried to pay back what they were advanced so as to get back control. Hope it works the same with Greece.
Haven’t you heard of the PIGS problem? Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain, all in trouble.
The citizens of Greece can now ask themselves a question: Is Greece a real democracy, or is it a mere appendage of Brussels?
Agreed. Many of them didn't want the EU to begin with. The joke about putting two Greeks in a room and getting three opinions is kind of true. Certainly, my country in-laws are staunchly pro-American (although, I haven't inquired since Obama took over). The city friends are more inclined to be flaming socialists. I suppose that's not so much different from here.
I don't put too much stock in strikes and protests unless there starts to be significant property damage. Seems like striking is sort of a national sport.
No. How many countries in Europe do you know that have a statue to a post-war American president in its capital?
Greece has a vocal hard left. (In Greece everything is vocal). But anti-American Greeks as a whole are not, they know who saved them from Stalin in 1949.
It still shows that national sovereignty under EU is conditional.
What Greece needs is a few good colonels getting the monarchy restored.
A feudal lord to whom fealty was due.
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