H/T Gates of Vienna
The former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was famously reluctant to discuss his faith during his time in office, has declared that he reads the Koran every day.
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Since leaving Number 10, Mr Blair has set up the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, to promote respect and understanding between the major religions.
Tony, don't lose your head over this if you get the drift!
"People still ask me if military decisions in Iraq or Afghanistan were based on some kind of divine instruction. "It's rubbish. Of course not. Just as I couldn't go into a corner and pray to ask God what the minimum wage should be."
Elitist. You might ought to try it and pray to God that the takeover of your country from within stops. You might pray for another Churchill to rally the country to fight its enemies.
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Remember an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all NATO members. Think anyone would show up? Maybe the Argies can finally kill that organization once and for all.
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It's a sad commentary on "civilization" when two nominally sane countries have to worry about a war over something the British have maintained since 1833. Don't they have anything better to do?
Unless The One is proposing a return to 1832 borders? Messico would be a powerhouse if Texas belonged to it. Or would it be the other way around?
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Then again, England could station a Gurkha regiment on the Falklands, and the Argentinian military wouldn't go anyway near the place. Soldiers who were willing to fight the English deserted when they heard the Gurkhas had landed.
It would also be a fine place to put a reactivated Sikh regiment. Maybe one managed by Xe Corporation.
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britain should say that it is prepared to return to the 1967 Falkland Island borders with mutually agreed to swaps of saliva
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The real problem is the RAF and Royal Navy have been mothballed for "economic reasons." That's typical short-sighted cost cutting.
Thus the Brits would not have a way to reinforce the islands.
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The islands don't want for reinforcements. There's enough boots and Tornadoes at Mt. Pleasant to handle any Argentine thread. There's usually an SSN in the neighborhood too.
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A twelve year old Gurkha girl-child, armed with knitting needles and a crochet hook... and a motion detector. Promise her if she's good she can go to medical school when she grows up.
Unfortunately, by many MSM-Net accounts iff the UK can't defend the Falklands, the Argentines are worse off than back in the 1980's in being able to attack + occupy it again.
* As per GWOT + alleged GLOBAL ECON CHAOS/FAILURE > UK = USA = IFF IT DOESN'T BRING ITS OVERSEAS MILFORS BACK HOME NOW, IN LT IT MAY NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO DO SO ONCE MILTERR NUKE-WMD "MUSHROOM CLOUDS" START DETONATING IN US-NATO/WESTERN CITIES.
Overseas Milfors will be watching their Families, Loved Ones, + Hometowns explode, etc. but won't be immediately able to prtect or do anything about it because their Fed Govts-States, including Allied, can no longer afford to do so.
Lest we fergit, "NUCLEAR IRAN" SYMBOLISM = Islamist Iran is unlikely IMO to formally declare itself a de facto NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATE UNTIL ITS NON-STATE/NGO MILTERR PROXIES ALSO POSSESS A MINIMAL OR "SUFFICIENT" DESTRUCTIVE NUKE-WMDS STRIKE CAPABILITY, OF BETTER, AGZ [major]US-NATO TARGETS.
The above does NOT count any NON-MUSLIM/
ISLAMIST, COMMIE + SOCIALIST- OTHER ANARCHIST, ETC, MILTERR GROUPS, NOR CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD GROUSP, WHOM COOPER = COLLUDE WID RADICAL ISLAM -the former non-Muslim/Islamic Orgz will want their own Nukes-WMDS as a matter of normal protection + security, ee "deterrence" + "flexibility", etc. agz internal + external,
"dynamic-static opposing forces".
D *** NG IT, HIS NAME IS "SCORPIO", HE HAS THE "DOOMSDAY DEVICE", + A SEXY SLINKY BIKINI-CLAD ASSASSIN-OFFICE ASISTANT GIRLFRIEND - HE'S UPSET BECAUSE A UNO OFFICE BUREAUCRAT-CRITTER THINKS A BUILT-TO-LAST-ONE-THOUSAND/MILYUHN-YEARS MAJOR US BRIDGE COLLAPSED BY ITSELF DESPITE SCORPIO PRESSING THE RED BUTTON.
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If Argentine took the islands the UK could simply sink the Biento Cinco DeMaya in port, a very symbolic target (if it's still seaworthy). That would be like the Dolittle Raid x10.
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