Sarklozy is an unconditional anti-Turkish racist.
On Jun 6, 2:32=A0pm, "Agamemnon" <agamem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Nicolas Sarkozy lays down alliance terms of engagement
>
> Dr. George Voskopoulos
> June 06, 2008
>
> During his visit to Athens the French President Nicolas Sarkozy gave
lesso=
ns
> on solidarity among alliance partners. He was clear about alliance
> obligations, something that other Greek allies have not honored,
although
> they request the political and logis-tical sup****t of Athens. Yet, this
> should not be a surprise to anyone, at least for those of us who have
> received a French education and are parts of le monde francophone.
>
> The charismatic French leader made some explicit remarks on the
Greece-FYR=
OM
> name dispute as he is amongst those who do not find Greek worries
"absurd"=
..
> As he pointed out referring to the Greece-FYROM name dispute, "we have
> chosen to sup-****t Greece and we will not change our position. Greece
and
> France wish to see FY-ROM get closer to NATO and the EU, yet, the name
> dispute will have to be settled first. The solidarity of France towards
> Greece is a fact and it will go on in the future. The Greek position is
> justified, responsible and open to a dialogue.".
>
> This is one single statement never heard from American officials
investing=
> in the op-****tunistic Atlanticism of Slav Macedonian government.
Actually
> the State Depart-ment has invested a lot in a continuous, outdated act
of
> cannibalizing history and has overlaid NATO=B4s commitment to the
defence =
of
> one of its members.
>
> American policy in the issue has been dominated by inflexibility. Ever
sin=
ce
> 1996 there was hard evidence that the US undermined the name issue and
Gre=
ek
> security and dealt with it as if it were a "name game". A. Mallias, Head
o=
f
> the first Mission in FYROM in the mid-1990s, was one of the first
diplomat=
s
> who sensed US determina-tion to proceed with recognition of FYROM with
its=
> constitutional name. In mid-June 1996 he was the one who alerted the
then
> Greek Foreign Minister on US non-facilitating policy [1]. Evidently
curren=
t
> American policy is not just a tem****ary de-viation from alliance
> commitments, a fact that clearly sets a number of priorities for the
next
> American president.
>
> The last time an American leader felt apologetic for America=B4s policy
> vis-=E0-vis Greece was B. Clinton. While visiting Athens he expressed
his
> apologies for the US not standing by the Greek side and the democratic
> forces crashed under the military might of a handful of low-rank
military
> officers. We should have been more careful with our Greek allies.we
should=
> have done more to prevent the expression of the military coup in Greece
in=
> 1967.we focused exclusively on the Soviet Union and forgot our
obligations=
> to our ally, B. Clinton said. It takes a charismatic leader to
ac-knowledg=
e
> mistakes of the past and Bill Clinton was one of those.
>
> That was probably the first and last moral sup****t Greece got from an
ally=
> that has de jure served ever since 1952. Still too many in Greece think
th=
at
> this is not enough. N. Sarkozy made this feeling more acute and exposed
> American inability to accommo-date the institutionally-derived
expectation=
s
> and security considerations of an allied country.
>
> Nicolas Sarkozy was more than explicit in setting the framework that
shoul=
d
> deter-mine relations between allies. "The Greek people can count on us
and=
> we can count on them", he said. It is sad enough that very few people in
> Greece could ever picture an American official saying the same thing
today=
..
> Nikolas Sarkozy gave alliances a raison d=B4 =EAtre and a meaning
somethin=
g
> urgently expected form the next American administration.
>
> 1] See Greek weekly Ependitis, 15-16/6/1996, p. 18.
>
> http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/64225
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