Falklanders feel under threat still

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#1 Post by **Kwackerz** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:00 pm

Somehing 'we' have been discussing elsewhere came to light this week with comments by the new governor:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/04022007/344/f ... hreat.html

Even with current overstretch, feeling tends to mirror the sentiments by the Brigadier. Taskforce? You'd have no problem with volunteers tbh. (Even if it is just to get a change from deserts and sandstorms....)

lazarus · #2 Post by **lazarus** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:50 pm

Probably right too. Bearing in mind your comments on the Navy, I cant see us sending a task force again so there couldnt even be another Dunkirk.

Is it worth fighting over? I dont think so.

#3 Post by **Kwackerz** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:43 pm

I hated the place. Windswept, Cold, Shitty place in the winter. A beautiful place in the Summer (minefields aside)

It's probably worth fighting over for the scrap metal the Argentinians left behind last time..

But from a personal point of view, many many brave people died to regain it last time. So that it could be British Sovereign soil for only another 25 years before losing it again? Dont think so. There'd be uproar. Too many people of an immediate family nature alive for a Government to allow it to fall into Johhny Foreigner's hands.

I guess we'll find out eventually once enough brave pills have been dished out in Argentina.

lazarus · #4 Post by **lazarus** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:33 am

Dont think so Kwaks. Its one thing to fight over an invasion, its another thing altogether to come to a peaceable settlement of what is a complete anachronism.

Who but us could give up decent islands in the pacific and the windies and keep somewhere like the Falklands? The French have been much more rational.