Argentina wants controversial team logo at London Olympics

[redcommander]

I don't think the UK's going to let this fly.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2068883/Argentina-wants-provocative-Falklands-badge-London-2012-Olympics.html?ITO=1490

[Platypus]

Politics at the olympics might be commonplace, but official sanctioning of the practice should be avoided.

The whole Argentinean popular sentiment about the Falklands is, to me, a sad comedy and the debate is absolutely pointless. In every way, the islands are legally British; and in most historical ways, the Argentine claim is weak. It's tragic that a hated dictatorship, trying to rally support, went to war over the Falklands and hundreds of Argentineans died in the process. It's amusing that they treat the islands as core to their nation and culture when that was never the case, and the people on the islands are overwhelmingly in favour of British rule.

Anyway, the British ought to ignore this and leave it to the IOC, and the IOC almost certainly will ban it.

[Edu]

Lol, this is the first I hear of this, the media here doesn't seem to be at all interested by this story.

Yeah, this is dumb as are most things sorrounding the islands "debate", it's certainly an issue I never cared about, but for politicians it's always useful to use the issue once in a while to rally some sort of nationalist support

Of course a lot of the times there is also a lot of fearmongering on the other side. I have seen people imply that Argentina could invade the islands again, which is completely ludicrous if you just look at the state of the armed forces which have been decimated and underfunded since Alfonsín's term as president till today. The army probably can't even invade a neighbourhood here.
Plus I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the armed forces dislike the current government.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I say that we sell the Falklands to some country that isn't Argentina.

[minionofmidas]

I say that we sell the Falklands to some country that isn't Argentina.

Chile?

Or Scotland, after independence. Falkland is a place in Fife, after all.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

The Falklands are cold and useful for nothing but sheep farming, and are overwhelmingly British. Argentina has more than enough already going for it, so why do they need that hole?

Wait, is it all about oil?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Falklands are cold and useful for nothing but sheep farming, and are overwhelmingly British. Argentina has more than enough already going for it, so why do they need that hole?

Wait, is it all about oil?

No because, although that would be an issue now, it wasn't an issue in 1982.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Falklands are cold and useful for nothing but sheep farming, and are overwhelmingly British. Argentina has more than enough already going for it, so why do they need that hole?

Idiotic nationalism. Though I understand the waters around the Falklands are pretty good for fishing.

[minionofmidas]

British settlement of the Falklands being, of course, an integral part of the British colonial (or rather very early neo-colonialist) venture in Patagonia in general. Now, whether that's still relevant almost two hundred years after settlement is a different question entirely.
Whatever became of the original French settlers? Wikipedia is silent on that, anybody know?

[Insula Dei]

British settlement of the Falklands being, of course, an integral part of the British colonial (or rather very early neo-colonialist) venture in Patagonia in general. Now, whether that's still relevant almost two hundred years after settlement is a different question entirely.
Whatever became of the original French settlers? Wikipedia is silent on that, anybody know?

We all know who you're thinking off when you ask about them.