I haven't been able to watch the ad yet. I've had a battery of tests (failed one, I think :S) in the past couple weeks, so I had to focus my TV time on what's really worth watching: Rebus, football, and Dragon Ball. No ads in any of those channels.
But it's saddening to see that the Sun can be so ruinous, and worse that it is still read by so many people in what's supposed to be a civilised, advanced 21st century country.
Its also hypocritical of London to get on a high horse about the politisation of the Games when they went much further banning the vanquished states' representatives after either World War, and also the same that shook hands with the Germans in '36
and supported boycotts against the Soviets whenever they felt like it. When will we ever do a mea culpa?
Argentinean Hitler, unfair economic infractions etcetc
Wasn't it a certain Mr. Quackers who said that the thread shouldn't have 'cheap shots at Cameron' allowed?
There's a lot of places where we might use our armed forces in a conflict (and perhaps not just because the US think it's a good idea). The Falklands is hardly the most likely, however, and to suggest otherwise is either ignorant or (more likely) disingenuous.
Of course it is, not only because of the utter lack of any significant Argentine military capability but also because of the lack of support for such a thing both inside and outside Argentina. The entirecontinent of South America is committed to peace, at least for the foreseeble future.
It does look like Argentina is trying to put the UK in a position where they can not engage in any negotiations.
The Front Page of todays
SUN
Argies dance
on our graves
Olympic vid insults Brit war dead
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4295654/Argies-dance-on-our-graves.html
Sure about that? Maybe it's the Sun who doesn't want the government to negotiate.
Of course it's a stupid move by the Argentine government, but then, it was a pre-made ad offered around publicly by a British-owned company and somehow no one noticed until it went on the air last week!
Why play Mrs. Kirchner's game?
It may, however, contribute to stirring up Argentine gall over the Falklands issue, which makes an invasion more likely.
An invasion? How come? With what armed forces? There isn't any secret army gathering in the storehouses of Mercadia or anything even remotely like it.
What's more, they're now
facing the possibility of a retroactive pay decrease. This wouldn't be even dreamed of if the current misgovernment had any militaristic ambitions.
Actually, I doubt if Imperialman and Quackers would allow anyone to forget it... More broadly, I really doubt that there is any prospect for the UK taking part in serious negotiations for a good while. People largely forgot about the Falklands for 20 years from 1990 or so, but it doesn't stop there still being very strong feelings about it now - as soon as it resurfaces, the BBC and The Sun will rally public opinion to the national cause just as they always have in these cases where a remote location is still deemed to be British (oh, except for Hong Kong, when they were told to shut up).
The important difference is that China have far more clout than Argentina does. Even if China is still a thinly-disguised totalitarian regime.
All i was suggesting was that the HK scenario was completely different to the Falkland issue.
So when people exclaim "oh well we gave up HK, why not the Falklands?!" - i'm saying the difference between the two means the outcome isn't going to be the same.
Isn't
necessarily going to be the same. Drop the triumphalism, Quacks. More countries side with Argentina than with the UK on this one. Of course, they're not the countries that count, but, still
sooner or later all these wonderfully clear motives will have to be shown and London will have to sit down and talk it out.