Exchanging Fake Greek Columns for Real Ones
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| Obama's Styrofoam Greek Columns Something is Phony Here |
In Greece, there is none of the cognitive dissonance about President Obama that one sees in the U.S.: although an overwhelming majority of Americans believe the country is going in the wrong direction, Obama remains personally quite popular. It's as if we can't look beyond Obama's winning, grinning persona and cannot see that Obama is the one responsible for the country's wrong direction.
In Greece, unfortunately, there has been a strong anti-American view of the U.S. ever since Andreas Papandreou demagogued the American bases out of Greece during the 1980s. The mainland bases were duly shut down, Souda Bay on the island of Crete was the only one that remained open.
To say that Orthodox Christian Greeks did not take kindly to Bill Clinton's bombing of Orthodox Christian Serbs in the spring of 1999 would be a pretty considerable understatement, so when Clinton visited the city of Athens that autumn the walls of its buildings were suddenly plastered with posters of Clinton as Hitler. There were a lot of demonstrations and property damage leading up to, and carried on during, Clinton's visit.
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November 17th took its name from the student uprising in 1974 at the Athens Polytechnic College which protested the ongoing rule of an American-backed military junta that had seized power and imposed virtual martial law on the country in 1967. While the CIA's involvement, exposed as a result of FOI requests, was not our finest hour, geopolitical considerations (i.e., the Cold War and Greece's proximity to the USSR) led then-president Johnson to approve of the overthrow.
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Now here's the problem with Obama's visit: it falls on November 15-16, exactly at the time when anarchists get revved up to celebrate the November 17 uprising. My Greek wife is incredulous. "Did not the Americans know about November 17th?" she asked me. "Doesn't their ambassador know anything about Greece?"
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