Right. They are brainwashed, you are lucid and rational... Sure. The level of *that* argumentation is roughly "I'm right and he's wrong." Not a very analytical standpoint, I'd say.

The only part of the whole issue I can perceive to be something more than two groups of "patriots" arguing over precedence to something as irrelevant as a name is the part about "oppressed Macedonian minorities that need to be liberated" - this being the Balkans, I can see why that one could make folks a little nervous. I also seem to recall talk in the news about an international peacekeeping op in Macedonia a year or two back, so apparently there's some real trouble going around.

'Course, it is also perfectly possible the Greeks really are oppressing "Macedonian" minorities... Excessive nationalism tends to do that, too.

Someone feel like going and digging up some reasonably objective data about the issue ?