Phanerothyme Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 Ah thank you for filling in a bit of soccer lore there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Well what are we there for? The opium? Kick out taliban - check, er no wait hang on .... Capture/Kill OBL - check, er no wait hang on ... Install/Restore rule of law & democracy - check, er no wait hang on ... If it's not the opium, and it's not the oil/gas/natural resources, then it's because someone, somewhere, is an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 This is good news for this countries bank balance,the prospects are fantastic so sod the argies. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11906367 Second take on the 'prospects'. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/8183528/Desire-Petroleum-says-no-Falklands-oil-discovery.html Shares jumped 26% and now have dropped 45%. Who got their fingers burnt ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoni_mouse Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 "the problem with that is the people on those islands want to stay british and we have to respect that" do you honestly think the reason we sent a task force down there some 30 years ago was about the islanders staying british and not about the potential revenue the oil companies will get from the oil exploration in the southern atlantic ? Get real ! __________________ I think someone needs to a bit of reading on the '82 conflict - how it began, the events leading up to it and the characters involved. Once you have, you'll realise that saying it was just about any one reason is pretty naive. And I dont think oil exploration was anywhere near the top of the priorities at the outbreak of the conflict. As to Argentina attempting another tilt at taking the islands, their armed force are in a much worse position now than they were 28 years ago. We wouldnt need an aircraft carrier either. The Typhoons based there as well as our submarine service would be more than enough to beat them back into the Atlantic if they were dumb enough to have another go.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Bourne Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 As to Argentina attempting another tilt at taking the islands, their armed force are in a much worse position now than they were 28 years ago. We wouldnt need an aircraft carrier either. The Typhoons based there as well as our submarine service would be more than enough to beat them back into the Atlantic if they were dumb enough to have another go.. And we have some nukes, too. x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoni_mouse Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 And we have some nukes, too. x Actually Nukes nearly made it 'down south' in the first conflict - HMS Hermes was carrying them for an exercise when the fleet was assembled - she actually sailed some considerable distance with the warheads on board before they were unloaded and shipped back to the UK. Not that we'd need them in any future conflict - a couple of SLCM's hitting the Argentine mainland would make them think twice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddgitt Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 "our" so the oil fields in the southern atlantic belong to us ? really ? why ? what gives us the right to own them ? what if oil was found just off cornwall and South America said we want them. How would we feel about that ? If they fought us, beat us, and occupied the contested land.....fair play to them, they would own it and the oil that went with it. We won it. It's ours. If they want it back, they know what they need to do. We might be a developed, 'civilised' world (for the most part), but this kind of thing will happen more and more as natural resources run dry. You can sit in your tee-pee made of hemp and eat the veg from your allotment, but the world needs more than happy thoughts and goodwill to keep turning (currently). Until a viable alternative is found we'll fight and bicker and plunder all the oil until it's gone - I for one am thankful we had the forethought and backbone to carve a little out for ourselves to ensure we can sustain our way of life for the foreseeable. Still, when we are back in the dark ages you'll be able to say I told you so; let that thought keep you warm for now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Well what are we there for? The opium? Probably this: http://moraloutrage.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/talking-points-on-the-trans-afghanistan-pipeline/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman62 Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Well what are we there for? The opium?We went in to save British citizens from a fascist neo nazi regime. Thankfuly that regime collapsed after the conflict, but don't think that it couldn't or wouldn't reappear under the right conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman62 Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Probably this: http://moraloutrage.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/talking-points-on-the-trans-afghanistan-pipeline/ Well surely there is no better incentive to look for alternative cheap forms of fuel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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