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The president of Argentina has reasserted her country's claim to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, on the 26th anniversary of the start of the war Argentina fought with Britain over the territory.
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Damn politicians, why can't they keep their slack-jawed mouths shut for a change?
The Falklands belong to us British, or rather, the people who actually live there on a barren windswept lump of rock in the middle of nowhere, want to be British.
As it stands it would make little difference if the islands residents wanted to be Argentinian, fact of the matter is it's
their choice who they are, not some junta nut-jobs or Whitehall fat-cats thousands of miles away.
I've wondered in the past what would have happened had the British not responded to the invasion back then; would the Argentinians have killed civilians there if they resisted the occupation? Come to that, were the positions reversed, would the British?
Rash speculation, I know, but landing expeditionary forces on foreign territory with the expectation that the country they belong to will do nothing, is just asking for a bloody nose or worse; and all for what, a boost to national pride? One more good war and an easy victory to ensure re-election? (now who does that sound like?
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One might have expected such foolish rhetoric as quoted above might have been quelled by the international embarrassment caused the last time round. I guess some people are too blind to let go of the past: a
"colonial enclave in the 21st century." she called it, well there's no getting around such entrenched thinking as that.
But if that's the way they want it, well then President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, step up and take your best shot if you think you can. It had better be a good one because you won't get a second chance...
Huh, didn't think so.