Well in the future I hope you are right , but I think we all agree it is a nest of problems right now. Not that is a terrible place, but we've seen better days, and the examples we're discussing give hope we'll see better days again.

How bout the Island of Samos and Melos

Samos developed into a powerful city state in ancient greece that nearly came to rival Athens.... as proven in Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War

and Melos for their bravery in not falling into the power struggle of the Athenians and Spartans in the latter war... their bravery is known to us as The Melian Debate


also IRELAND... Very rich country today.

Irish are pretty interesting people. Now there is another island divided against itself in ways much more dire than ours.

"Irish are pretty interesting people."

Maybe the Irish Irish but Irish Americans are among the biggest racist dirtbags walking the planet.

I do not care, HISPANIOLA is the Shiznitz and the best Island in the World no matter what the situation is over there period.

Viva Hispanola!!!

That they are, but it has been my experience that like Poles and some other types out there they essentially hate everyone of any color who isn't one of theirs. In fact even at home look how hard they fight each other over religion.