"...Αλλά υπάρχουν στιγμές κατά τις οποίες ένας λαός οφείλει, αν θέλη να μείνη μεγάλος, να είναι ικανός να πολεμήση, έστω και χωρίς καμμίαν ελπίδα νίκης. Μόνον διότι πρέπει."
(There are moments when a nation, willing to remain a great nation, must be ready to fight, even if it means fighting a war without any hope of victory...)
Powerful words spoken by men with balls to men with balls**.
None of them owned a Porsche Cayenne and none spoke with a whiny mew.
That was Greece in the '40s and those were people to be proud of -- some of them at least.
Today's Greeks are much more comfortable and many have the ultimate symbol of success: the Porsche Cayenne.
They are less fortunate in other ways. Today's Greeks have less to be proud of. Indeed, in a "global world" they have very little to be proud of: check out the Minister of National Defence, * for example.
* to do him justice, the guy has some experience in urban militia: he spent some time studying at faco (Paris2) which used to be populated by right-wing activists.
**or women, insert as appropriate. In the quote above it was Ioannis Metaxas, a General)
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