Argentina's Dishonour

The Argentine government are trying to put the frighteners on the banks that might finance the oil companies drilling or about to drill for oil in the waters surrounding the Falklands. The frighteners consist of threatening legal action to any bank that lends to a company prepared to explore for oil in Falkland Island waters. The Argentinians had entered into an agreement with the British in 1993 or 1994 that any oil discovered would be shared. They were obviously happy with the terms at the time as they would not have have signed up to them otherwise. They have though since then resiled from such agreement and apparently other agreements they entered into with us post the Falklands war. Mrs Kirchner really must be in a deep political hole if she needs to stir up the feelings of her fellow citizens to take their minds off the financial hole she and her husband dug for them. There is of course the little question of greed now it seems oil is there for the taking. As we all know the last refuge of a scoundrel is patriotism and we should be careful that Mrs Kirchner doesn't paint herself into such a corner that the only way out of it for her is war. The last thing we need is a war but even though the Americans would want us to back down we must never give in to unreasonable adventuresses with whom there is no reasoning other than surrender. We must never surrender. We must stand our ground and fight. If they are not already there we need submarines to blow any invasion force out of the water. In the meantime we should exclude them from all rugby tournaments and more seriously encourage those who suffered when Argentina defaulted in spectacular fashion some ten or so years ago to take compensation. Unfortunately there is no honour in Argentina or more specifically there is no honour in Mrs Kirchner and her regime. If they had any honour they would act like Iceland.