In short, it's Hitler v. the Jews... all over again.
Back in the day, when I was in college, the first Falkland Island debacle was going on. The English came in and kicked the crap out of Argentina, which they will be more than happy to do again if this moron keeps pushing the envelope. It was a PoliSci 300 level project that involved a complete, as it happened, blow-by-blow briefing including historical, logistical and strategic/tactical overview of the abortive effort to do... well, the same thing that moron running the show is trying to do now.
Getting her troops slaughtered isn't what I'd call a great national goal. But it will be the national outcome if they keep it up.
UPDATE 1-Falklands votes in sovereignty referendum rejected by Argentina
* Argentina intensifies claim over British-ruled territory
* Islanders vote on keeping sovereignty status quo
* Buenos Aires says referendum illegal, irrelevant
* Oil drilling fuels Argentine calls for negotiations
By Juan Bustamante
STANLEY, Falkland Islands, March 10 (Reuters) - Residents of the Falkland Islands started voting on Sunday in a sovereignty referendum that seeks to counter Argentina's increasingly assertive claim over the British-ruled territory.
Diplomatic tension between Britain and Argentina has flared up after more than three decades since they went to war over the South Atlantic archipelago, and that has unsettled some of the roughly 2,500 islanders.
With patriotic feelings running high, Falklands-born and long-term residents will cast ballots in the two-day referendum in which they will be asked whether they want to stay a British Overseas Territory.
Officials are expected to announce the result at about 8 p.m. (2300 GMT) after polls close on Monday.
An overwhelming "yes" vote is likely, prompting Argentina to dismiss the referendum as a meaningless publicity stunt. A high turnout is expected, however, as islanders embrace it as a chance to make their voices heard.
"We hope the undecideds, or the uninformeds, or those countries that might otherwise be prepared to give the nod to Argentina's sovereignty claim might have pause for thought after the referendum," said John Fowler, deputy editor of the islands' weekly newspaper, the Penguin News.
"This is an attempt to say 'hang on a minute, there's another side to the story'."
People queued to vote at the town hall in the quiet island capital of Stanley, where referendum posters bearing the slogan "Our Islands, Our Choice" adorned front windows. The post office produced a line of official stamps to mark the occasion.
In distant islands and far-flung sheep farms, ballot papers were being flown and driven in by mobile polling stations.
"For me, this referendum is extremely important because I have no wish to be part of Argentina," said Rob McGill, 67, who runs a guesthouse in isolated Carcass Island and voted by post.
"I consider myself a Falkland Islander, but my ancestors came from Britain," he said.
FIERY REMARKS
Some islanders are the descendants of British settlers who arrived eight or nine generations ago and the Falklands retain an unmistakably British character despite a sizeable community of immigrants from Chile and Saint Helena.
Residents say fiery remarks by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez and her foreign minister, Hector Timerman, have galvanized patriotic sentiment on the islands, which lie nearly 8,000 miles (12,700 km) from London and just a 75-minute flight away from southern Argentina.
Tensions have risen with the discovery of commercially viable oil resources in the Falklands basin and by Fernandez's persistent demands for Britain to hold sovereignty talks over the Malvinas, as the islands are called in Spanish.
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