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Originally Posted by Targan
I think the Australian media is far from perfect but I keep hearing points like these, especially from American posters on this forum, referring to the worldwide media (or perhaps by that they really mean American media with a worldwide reach) overlooking important points in stories like these.
The Australian media, in its reporting on the occasional Argentinian chest-beating and flag-waving over the Falklands issue, has consistently pointed out that the Falklanders have no interest whatsoever in being ruled by Argentina. And for me that is the most important point in the whole debate. If the overwhelming majority of Falklanders want to remain a self-governing territory of Britain then that is how they should remain, and Argentina can just back the f*ck up.
And that Sean Penn has taken up Argentina's cause in this issue? It strikes me as really odd. I'm not a big fan of Penn's work in film (some of his roles have been ok) but I have always had the impression that he's a fairly intelligent, well informed kind of guy. Why the hell has he taken this stance over the Falklands issue? Of course he's entirely entitled to have his own opinion on the matter, but why is he going out of his way to back Argentina in this in the media? It confuses me.  |
Targan, by "worldwide" media, I meant to include American media as well, hope that clears that up.
As for Sean Penn....sigh, Penn, well, it's pretty well documented that he's pretty chummy with guys such as Castro and Chavez, and tends to take up their political views (he's not the only one in Hollywood either, sadly, more one of many). Castro and Chavez seem to have latched their support on to Kirchner, if to once again try to poke the eye of the "Imperialist Westerners" if nothing else. I think it'd be rather amusing if the Americans sent a Carrier Battle Group along with a Marine Expeditionary Unit down to the Falklands to "settle" the dispute, and all Chavez and Castro could do was whine.
But this isn't Penn's first foray into international politics. Remember when he was calling Saddam's Iraq a paradise where the kids flew kites? Granted that wasn't so far from the truth in some cases as long as you were in the good graces of the Hussein family...