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This is what is called: "Trying to pull a fast one".
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It's done, we call them Macedonia. My globe calls them that as does the map on my wall.
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It does not also for your information this thing eating me up, at the end of the day I'll be sound asleep.
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Well one could say 100 percent of your posts have been spent being mad at the "slavs" for picking a name for their country.
You started to dig up information on their ethnic origin as the reason why they don't have a right to name their country. You keep responding complaining that the "slavs" (officially called Macedonians) are stealing history.
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ld care inside their own country how many are Slavs, if they want to keep track of things, and have a country a few years down the road.
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Those "slavs" (or as Bush calls them - Macedonians) have a platoon of Rangers in Iraq and Greece hates America. Not a hard one here. I'll take a platoon of Rangers in Iraq over Greece's hating America.
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April 3, 2008, 4:59 pm
Shame On Greece: Messing With Macedonia
Shame On Greece: Messing With Macedonia - The Board - Editorials - Opinion - New York Times Blog
By The Editorial Board
The Macedonians walked out of the NATO summit on Thursday and we can’t say we blame them.
Croatia and Albania were granted membership in the western alliance at a leaders’ meeting in Bucharest, but Macedonia was barred for an absurd reason: Greece doesn’t like its name.
That decision shames Greece and it dishonors NATO, which has far more serious problems and challenges to worry about.
The name “Macedonia,” is shared by the former Yugoslav republic and by northern Greece. From the moment the former-Yugoslav Macedonia declared independence in 1991, the Greeks — reflecting byzantine Balkan politics — vehemently objected to the new state’s use of a name and symbols they regard as theirs.
As a result, the United Nations provisionally designated the country as “the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” — or, rather uneuphonically: FYROM.
Athens has since normalized relations and many countries, including the United States, have abandoned the clumsy FYROM in favor of Republic of Macedonia, which is what Macedonia calls itself.
A United Nations mediator tried to work out a compromise but in the end, Greece — a NATO member since 1952 — exercised its veto. The alliance operates on consensus.
Tiny Macedonia doesn’t threaten Greece under any name. In fact, bringing it into the NATO fold would enhance regional stability. Now, there are concerns Macedonia’s failure to gain alliance membership could fan nationalism and anti-Western sentiment as well as jeopardize its ability to join the European Union.
President Bush and European leaders should have worked harder at finding a solution to this corrosive problem before Greece exercised its veto.
Now they must ratchet up the pressure on Greece to achieve that compromise so that NATO’s insult to Macedonia is reversed as quickly as possible.