America the despised

National Interest, The, Spring, 2002 by Takis Michas

At the same time, those feelings go hand in hand with a pragmatic attitude on the part of the majority of the Greek population toward Greece's membership in NATO and its relations with the United States. Thus, as many opinion polls have shown, the majority of the Greek population combines a critical attitude toward the United States and its policies with an acquiescence to the Greek government's formal support for those policies. Whether this situation can be sustained in the long run, only time will tell.

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(2.) Friedrich Engels and Marx, I Ellada i Tourkia kai to Anatoliko Zitma ("Greece, Turkey and the Eastern Question"), translated by Panayotis Kondilis (Athens: Gnosi, 1985), p. 287-8.

(3.) Clark, Why Angels Fall: A Journey through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000).

(4.) Schmemann, I apostoli tis eklesias sto sichrono kosmo (Athens: Akrita, 1993).

(5.) Giannaras, Orthodoxia kai Disi neoteri Ellada (Athens: Domos, 1992).

Takis Michas is a staff writer for the Greek daily Eleftheroiypia and a frequent contributor to the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal (Europe). The views expressed here are the author's own. His book, The Unholy Alliance: Greece and Milosevic's Serbia During the 1990s, is forthcoming from Texas A & M Press.