Myths of US Foreign Policy

[Bereta_Eder]

dino daoesnt notice anything he isnt particularly strong in the noticing business

[Arrian]

Roland:

But why then do virtually all americans piss off everyone else by constantly (rightfully or wrongly) telling them how much they suck compared to the US ?

Gee, thanks for generalizing. "Virtually all Americans" huh? I beg to differ. "Obnoxious 'News' Networks and Politicians" maybe. I seriously doubt you hear much from the average American (whoever that is). But the crap you do hear has to do with the arrogance of power I was talking about.

I won't get into the pissing contest over how strong our army/economy/whatever is. I'll leave that to you and Dino. Suffice it to say that, righly or wrongly, many Americans think our country is powerful. That power, real or imagined, goes to people's heads.

-Arrian
wondering why he bothered to post something serious.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by DinoDoc


I know the history, Mark. The Athenians and Spartans were the ones responsible for the defeat of the Persians, not the Macedonians. So why are you gloating about the Persian Wars when your ancestors had nothing to do with thier conclusion?

the ones who lead the rest of the greeks in the definite victory over Persia were the macedonians



the first sucessful repulsion of Persia created propably for the first time the notion of the nation.

*It was not a victory of Athens but of all of Hellas*

[Bereta_Eder]

ecthelinaki is trolling as always. no need replaying.

Roland is trolling propably because he thinks calling us slavs embarrases us.

we are not racist as he is

we are simply greeks.


but we do have a common word with the slavs.

Poutsa.

[Roland]

"Gee, thanks for generalizing."

Ok, maybe it is a professional problems. The most bizarre thing I've seen was a US prof who critisized the way I wrote a "7" in a phone number as wrong because "it's not american". And that's not a joke, nor was it one on his side.
So apart from "Obnoxious 'News' Networks and Politicians" it's also academics. And the corporate clowns. And ordinary Americans complaining about our highways. Or about our labour laws (of which he of course didn't have a freakin' clue). Etc.

Ok, unfair to generalize it. But I haven't seen an even remotely similar behaviour from any other nationality.

[Roland]

"Roland is trolling propably because he thinks calling us slavs embarrases us."

Not at all. It's just that your claim on ancient Greece and denial of the slavic element amuses me.

If I had to state a number I'd say Austrians are 30-50 % slavic in origin. Particularly Carinthians.

[Bereta_Eder]

come on, you can try harder than that.

anything that says austrians are below 90% slavs is racist

[Saras]

Originally posted by Roland
And ordinary Americans complaining about our highways.

Have they driven on theirs?

[Roland]

Apart from the 10 % germanic, there's also celtic, italian, illyric and in certain regions huns (not the Kraut version, the real ones).

So sorry, the slavic element has to share its predominance with many others.

[Bereta_Eder]

bullkaka

italian? you're mixing the time periods.

and i always knew you were albanians in reality.

bah, you're just pissed your grandpa wasn't named plato

[Arrian]

And ordinary Americans complaining about our highways. Or about our labour laws (of which he of course didn't have a freakin' clue). Etc.

As if this couldn't be reversed? Ordinary Europeans criticize X, Y and Z American things (lets say... Capitol Punishment, our electoral system and our public schools). People just love to criticize, don't they? My point was that some of the "USA is better than Europe" crap on these forums comes from the "Europe is better than the US" crap, of which some comes from the "USA is better than Europe" crap...

Bah.

-Arrian

[Roland]

"Have they driven on theirs?"

No idea. I asked something like "That's why you have to crawl on your highways, right?"

"italian? you're mixing the time periods....
bah, you're just pissed your grandpa wasn't named plato"

Oddly enough, my grandpa's name was Julius.....

"As if this couldn't be reversed?"

Sure. But I haven't seen this kind of pissing contest with any other nation. So either we have sorted you out for that, or it is something about you....

Maybe we should ask Canada about it....

[Arrian]

So either we have sorted you out for that, or it is something about you....

Well, clearly we get the impression that it's the former. You think it's the latter. Whatever. Blame Canada. I'm done with this conversation.

-Arrian

[Bereta_Eder]

yeah but merely being named julius wasnt good enough it seems

[Roland]

His full name was Julius Clemens.

No idea why.