Let’s say 10 terrorists from Albania and Turkey hijacked 4 Olympic Airlines flights and systematically crashed them into the Acropolis, the Parliament Building , Ethniki Amyna and the Athens Stock Exchange. Thousands have been killed. And in the process of trying to put of the fires and rescue survivors, hundreds of firefighters and police offices died.

And let’s say that many other nations’ religious leaders looked upon this act as a “Divine Intervention” [Archbishop Christodoulos Paraskevaides] and the general consensus of the world was that “Greece deserved this act of terror” because “they smoke too much” or “they have too many car accidents” or “this was a wake up call to those nutty Greeks”.

I ask the people of Greece – how would you react to these statements?

Maybe a little upset?

Listen, we all now that the United States is not the clean, innocent protector of the world. This country has many, many faults. But it is sad and true that the world has to have a superpower and who would you rather it be? Russia? China? Turkey? At the very least the United States tries to keep a semblance of freedom about itself. Want to criticize the government? Well, you don’t disappear in the middle of the night. Want to worship Allah or Bhudda or Zues? Be our guest.

Greece, do you know who your government called when Turkey was threatening to take over a bunch of rocks within your “territorial” claims? They called ol Mister Bill Clinton. And in the middle of the night Clinton sat with one phone call from Greece in one ear and one phone call from Turkey in the other ear. And a conflict between 2 NATO members was averted.

Let’s face it folks, Greece would NEVER survive an attack from Turkey. 12 million people versus 65 million….you do the math.

The question is now – when Al Queda blows up a nuclear bomb somewhere in Europe or perhaps the Middle East, who is Greece going to turn to for help? The United States. So why does it always seem that Greece attacks the hand that feeds them?

A Fellow Greek

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