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| VDH on Greece |
| 2003-07-14 |
| Indeed, this summer I suddenly sensed something I had not noticed in my prior annual visits: There seems to be few Americans anywhere. Germans? French? Dutch? They are ubiquitous. But there is hardly an American to be seen. America-Stop signs, reruns of "Married with Children," and MTV schlock-is everywhere; but Americans themselves are almost nowhere. Maybe we are staying home because of the general fear of terrorism in the post 9-11 climate. Maybe it is our recession-or the steep price hikes brought on by the strong Euro. Yet I think there is also something else special to Greece going on that might explain why Americans would forgo such a safe and beautiful country, replete with a history unrivaled elsewhere. My gut feeling is that after years of splashy anti-Americanism, most Americans-quite wrongly I think-finally concluded it was a hostile place better left alone. A nice little piece by Victor Davis Hanson. Nuff said. Go thou and read it all. |
| Posted by:Ptah |
| #3 "Perhaps some Greek could do something about Greek idiocy before he starts beating on the Americans ? " And what makes you think that I haven't done something about Greek idiocy before I started beating on the Americans? What makes you think that I haven't spent years doing a lot of somethings about Greek idiocy before I started "beating on the Americans"? Anonymous idiot. And the US isn't "entitled to some paranoia" when by "paranoia" you mean "xenophobic racism". Nobody is. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2003-7-15 5:32:09 AM |
| #2 Turnabout is fair play I think. The US is entitled to some paranoia after 40 years of the same from pretty much the entire European intelligentsia. Perhaps some Greek could do something about Greek idiocy before he starts beating on the Americans ? We may get the impression that you really don't like us after all - |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-7-14 11:02:57 PM |
| #1 It's indeed a nice piece, until near the end when it suddenly pretty much goes ethnoracist and xenophobic about the evil German people conspiring to take control of Greece and the rest of Europe from Berlin. *rolls eyes* That one paragraph would work better as a bit of self-satire when he had previously (and correctly) mocked some of the conspiracy theories about America. Conspiracy theories about the EU (and the eeeevil Germans) are okay though, right? |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2003-7-14 9:07:44 PM |