Wednesday 21 December 2011

Argentina rattles Sabre again.

Just a gentle reminder of why hundreds of Brits died!
Amplify’d from politics.co.uk



Comment: The thuggery of Argentina's Falklands claim


Ian Dunt: 'The protection of peoples' self-determination to choose their own government is the protection of the weak from the strong.'
Ian Dunt: 'The protection of peoples' self-determination to choose their own government is the protection of the weak from the strong.'
We are protecting the people of the Falklands from a foreign government whose claim to the territory is at the intellectual level of a five-year-old child.  By Ian Dunt

Argentina's (mostly illusionary) economic resurgence has a disappointing side-effect. It prompts regular bouts of sabre-rattling over the Falklands Islands.

Its glamorous president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, is prone to issuing tetchy attacks on Britain, not least of all her insistence that the UK is "a crass colonial power in decline". That last point is neither entirely false nor particularly interesting, but it is about 50 years out of date.

It's been getting worse recently. British licensed fishing boats are being intercepted by Argentina. It announced last year that boats sailing to or from the Falkland, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands would require permission to pass through Argentine water.
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