Posts Tagged: Argentina
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Let's Bomb the Falklands!

It's almost the 30th anniversary of the Falkands War! If you forget why that war was fought, well, let old Maggie explain it to you: "We fought to show that aggression does not pay and that the robber cannot be allowed to get away with his swag." So to celebrate, England is sending over the HMS Dauntless, which is "'armed with a battery of missiles that could "take out all of South America's fighter aircraft let alone Argentina's,' according to one Navy source." They will retain these thoroughly crappy little islands off the coast of Argentina! Who wouldn't want them? Meanwhile, it's a war of words between the [...]

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Barack Obama Doesn't Care About British People

Barack Obama is BETRAYING BRITAIN "in her hour of need," taking a neutral position in the latest dispute over the Falkland Islands (or as Barack probably calls them, Las Islas Malvinas). It is, to put it in terms the British might use, almost as if he knifecrimed the Special Relationship in the back.

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The Americas: Trouble Down South

Much like George W. Bush after 9/11, we don't pay a lot of attention to the countries to our south unless something's going on with the cocaine supply. But there were a couple of interesting things that happened this weekend which you might want to know about.