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| Falklands or Malvinas? |
| 2012-02-21 |
| Some of the biggest winds in the world blow through the stormy South Atlantic, but none stormier than the political hyperbole that's sweeping through the region lately. It's just 30 years since the Falkland Islands war that took 900 young lives and saved the government of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher while bringing down one of South America's foulest military dictatorships. All this for possession of some 770 chilly islands totaling about half the area of Los Angeles County and with about the same year-round population (3,200) as Santa Catalina Island. Not counting seals, albatrosses, penguins and about 500,000 sheep. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #7 Why not ask Obama? He is giving away islands. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-02-21 13:45 |
| #6 Indeed they do lblis. I hope I am wrong, but I smell yet another Albion betrayal. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-02-21 09:52 |
| #5 I guess no one cares what the residents of the Falklands think, but they overwhelmingly prefer to remain British. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2012-02-21 09:46 |
| #4 A country taking land from another that thinks it owns is often a reason for war. Take that up with the Prussian and Silesian Germans. However, it appears the German solution is not war these days, but financial acquisition. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-02-21 09:06 |
| #3 The UK has owned it longer than living memory. How long must one possess a piece of land before we start to laugh off other claims? Every chunk of land goes back to someone. We are a migrating conquering species. The entire AngloSphere should shut down our embassies in Argentina until they end this idiocy. If it all happened on one day, or a cascading effect of a few a day for a week it would send a powerful message. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2012-02-21 08:49 |
| #2 A country taking land from another that thinks it owns is often a reason for war. |
| Posted by: BernardZ 2012-02-21 07:00 |
| #1 don't forget the oodles of oil. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2012-02-21 01:05 |