She's Still At It

President Kirchner of Argentina has lost no time in pressing her misguided suit on the newly-elected (Argentinian) Pope.

Presiding over an economy that is not far from the knacker's yard she is desperately trying to keep the Falkland Islands in the news.   She is quoted as saying "I asked for his intervention to avoid problems that could emerge from the militarization of Great Britain in the south Atlantic," 

Well she can piss off.  The will be no problems at all if she keeps her nose out of it. The Falkland Islands are sovereign British territory which we are free to operate as we please; none of her damned business.  Of course she wants to keep the populace distracted as did her repellent predecessor Galtieri.  Tough.

Until the next time

The New Pope

The New Argentinian Pope has apparently made his views clear about what he calls "Las Malvinas," that is The Falkland Islands.  He has made statements regretting the loss of the lives of the Argentinian soldiers, sailors and airmen many of them conscripts, who perished during General Galtieri's misguided attempt forcibly to annex the islands to Argentina.

For a catholic, newly-elected Pope it might be a bit better if he were to apologise for Galtieri's appalling dictatorship and to the families of the "disappeared" ones - those thousands brutally executed or simply dropped from helicopters.  And also for Galtieri's cynical exploitation of the issue to distract attention at home - just as that idiot woman Kirchner is attempting at present.

Meanwhile I suggest that he keeps his Jesuitical nose firmly to the church grindstone (it is in need of urgent attention) and out of the affairs of Great Britain and the Falkland Islands.

Until the next time.