Btw, I know all about those annual Greeko community parties they conduct in the diaspora... they start off with a couple of speeches and then everybody wakes up to feast themselves stupid, and last some of the people who can still stand do a few rounds on the dancefloor, and finally you then all go to bed...
Hmm, yeah that should liberate Cyprus!
Get real, although I agree with you on the majority of things you have said about America and the UK’s foreign policy, I cannot agree with you on what you say about the Diaspora GC’s. My Father and many others in our community have been campaigning against the Turkish occupation of Cyprus for years. Since I was a small child I remember going on marches, handing out leaflets in the street, listening to speeches, going to fundraisers, etc.. My father has meetings every week, where they organize marches and petitions, where they try and find every way possible of publicising the Cyprus problem and where they attempt to get local MP’s on board (many times successfully). I have been to London on marches and I am in awe at just how many people there are, young and old, all together to do there bit to try and solve the Cyprus issue, however small a part they play.. I just don’t think it’s fair to suggest that the Greek Cypriots who have moved away, do not care about Cyprus and do nothing to fight for justice…‘Turkish troops out of Cyprus, refugees to return home, and Cyprus to be unified’ basically justice for all Cypriots, that’s the message I’ve grown up with..
Anyway, about America and Britain’s foreign policies…What can I say? I hate hypocrisy, I hate double standards, I hate what they are doing in the middle east, I hate this simplistic view that Bush carries of ‘good versus evil’ , where he generalizes and lumps almost everyone with the ‘terrorist’ label. When I watch him on the television I get so mad sometimes…And Blair? Well I lost all respect for him (not that I had much before hand, what with Iraq..) after what happened in Lebanon, he just proved to me then that he was incapable of thinking for himself…People continued to die because he didn’t have the guts to stand up against Bush and say ‘this is wrong, it needs to stop’…
What is happening in the occupied territories in Palestine? What is happening in Iraq? What is happening in Iran? (But jot just in the middle east, but in Latin America, Asia and Africa, all places where America and the CIA decided to get involved, and many times to make a mess, a mess that in many places is still causing problems to this day…) It’s interesting to note that members of the group that attacked the twin towers were form I believe Saudi Arabia, so why, if it’s a quest to ‘fight evil’ have not Bush and Blair invaded Saudi Arabia? Hypocrisy anyone? I have nothing against America and Americans, I know that they have brought many things to this world, in the form of music, arts, science, etc and I do not condone the actions of suicide bombers, but America and Britain’s foreign policy, well sucks. It needs to change. I watched a documentary recently about the actions of the CIA throughout the ages (I‘ll try and find it online and post It at some point..), and I was shocked with just how many coups they had funded to topple democratically elected governments (Amongst other things) all because they did not fit with the ‘American plan’. So in the West we are allowed democracy, but others are not? That’s just appalling.. As I said, the foreign policy of both America and the UK needs to change, because it’s making a lot of people angry, including myself…