For all the EUnuch ignorance of history, and all their
appeasement of terrorism, I'd thought that though it is 2006 here,
it was 1937 again in Europe. I still think that's right, but it may
soon be 1982 again in Britain.
Thanks to the Argentines, that is. According to this
Daily Telegraph report, Argentina is reasserting its claims to
the Malvinas Islands. Which, of course, the rest of the world
calls the Falklands. In 1982 Argentina invaded the Falklands and
claimed it as Argentina's territory. Britain's Maggie Thatcher
would have none of it and sent the British fleet, albeit at
diplomatic speed, to solve the problem. The war that followed
included the spectacular sinking of the pride of the Argentine
navy, the General Belgrano, by a British submarine.
This round may be different. There's no Maggie Thatcher in
England. Soon there won't even be a Tony Blair. I'm betting the
Falklands become the Malvinas in a year or two.
