28-12-2014, 10:50 PM
Argentina's president is using the Falklands dispute to unite her country in hatred towards us, to deflect attention away from the crippling problems Argentina faces domestically. It was the same with the military dictatorship in 1982...
Fact is, I don't care about the UK losing sovereign territory. I despise our history of colonialism, my family suffered awful treatment at the hands of the British Empire, as did most of the territories we conquered and enslaved, but the Falklands are different - those people WANT to be a part of the UK, and so we have a duty to support them and protect them. That episode shows 1/10th of what the Islanders would suffer if they became a part of Argentina.
Fact is, I don't care about the UK losing sovereign territory. I despise our history of colonialism, my family suffered awful treatment at the hands of the British Empire, as did most of the territories we conquered and enslaved, but the Falklands are different - those people WANT to be a part of the UK, and so we have a duty to support them and protect them. That episode shows 1/10th of what the Islanders would suffer if they became a part of Argentina.
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