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Every year
something happens in the world that ignites
public opinion and causes a reaction in
Greece. One year it was Kosovo and another
year the war in Afganistan. Now it is Iraq and who knows what is next? And every year the
Greek media is able to find some idiot at a
soccer game burning an American flag while a
dozen of his simple-minded buddies cheer him
on and wave at the cameras. Then they sell the
shot to CNN which broadcasts it all over
America and the world under the subject of
'Anti-Americanism
in
Greece
'. Some years the Greek communists will have
their marches against globalization, American
intervention, the occupation of Cyprus or
whatever war is happening. These marches are
joined by a dozen or so 'anarchists', who are
usually people with no political ideology,
(they just like to burn and break things), who
use it as an excuse to run wild and burn cars
and the shops of their fellow Athenians and
battle the police, which they see as a kind of
sport. Once again the Greek media films the
carnage and sells it to CNN as 'anti-American
riots'. Then I get dozens of e-mails from
Americans planning to go to Greece who are
concerned about their safety. |
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