This guy needs a serious case of “STFU” while Argentine Bully Girl Cristina Kirchner needs to be reminded that Britain could crush her country any time it wants to..
Hollywood actor Sean Penn has weighed into the ongoing Falkslands dispute, and taken Argentina’s side in the matter.
He urged Britain to join proposed UN sponsored talks over what he called “the Malvinas Islands of Argentina”, and went on to criticise the UK, saying: “The world today is not going to tolerate any ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology.”
Penn made the comments in his capacity as UN ambassador at large for Haiti after meeting with Argentine President Cristina Kirchner.
“I understand that it’s a very sensitive moment (in terms) of diplomacy related to the Malvinas (Argentina’s name for the Falklands), for Argentina and the United Kingdom,” said Penn.
“Although I am here in the capacity of an Ambassador at large for Haiti I do want to say, I feel the responsibility to say, that I support all diplomatic communications that must happen, and must be the only way in which this is resolved.”
Britain has refused to negotiate as long as Falklanders want to remain part of the British realm, and is increasing its military defences ahead of the 30th anniversary of Argentina’s failed effort to seize the islands.
HMS Dauntless, one of the Navy’s most advanced new warships, is preparing for deployment to the area in the South Atlantic.
The South American nation took the case to the United Nations, where foreign minister Hector Timerman criticised the UK, saying the islands represent “the last refuge of a declining empire”.
Britain’s envoy to the UN, Mark Lyall-Grant, responded, saying that the claims were “manifestly absurd,” adding: “Nothing in the UK’s defence posture has changed in recent months or years. The only thing that has changed is the politics of Argentina.”
This is funny. The British are getting a taste of their own medicine. They call Israel colonialists, now the guns are turned on them.
I’m neutral in the Argentina-UK dispute. Britain is a US ally, but the Argentines are my cousins. So as a Hispanic-American, I have no dog in this fight. Its all barking since Argentina can’t do anything and the UK has economic problems.
@ Rodan:
British hypocrisy is pretty damn funny.
@ Speranza:
Yeah and Argentina is like a Chihuahua. This is all for show. Britain still has naval ships. So this is a wash.
Someone needs to tell Spicoli the madmen who run Haiti gave him the job as a payoff. Not because he’s incredibly versed on foreign affairs or has a IQ higher than Drew Brees’ jersey number.
Someone should tell Spicoli the Falkland islanders are mostly of Scots ancestry and prefer to remain British.
“The world today is not going to tolerate any ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology.”
Sure, because the Expansion of Global Communist Hegemony is not colonialism, nosiree…
@ Philip_Daniel:
Neither is the expansion of a global Islamist Caliphate. That is the expression of God’s Will®, opposed only by apostates! Just ask Obama…
ummm, no. and no one cares, now go back to your relief work and shut your talk box.
@ coldwarrior:
Makes me want to take a trip to the DR and yell across the border to him wearing a Tommy Bahama shirt and a ditchdigger hat with a particularly flamboyant looking drink in my hand – “Hey!! How’s life??”
@ Bumr50:
nowhere in his capacity as ambassador at large for haiti is he permitted to speak about foreign affairs of argieland and/or uk. but, he is a lefty, so the normal rules of diplomatic decorum dont apply.
@ coldwarrior:
“Camp Obama”!!!!
You would think he would be worried about, um, HAITI…
@ coldwarrior:
I find it interesting.
His ideology dictates that Haiti cannot stand on it’s own, and that the suffering of millions of Haitians is somehow everyone else’s fault.
To that end, he can’t help but speak out on foreign affairs.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’d love to see him give that speech in downtown Tehran.
coldwarrior wrote:
He is as much an ambassador as James Brown was “Ambassador of Soul” (as he was dubbed by congress).
The Osprey wrote:
The whole question should be decided by the Falkland Islanders, and that’s that. It’s a lie to call it colonialism if the inhabitants want to retain their association with the motherland.
Speranza wrote:
he was the hardest working man in show biz as well.
coldwarrior wrote:
To a lefty, the normal rules of ANY kind of decorum don’t apply. In fact, the concept of decorum is foreign to them. That’s why it’s okay with them when people poop in the street.
@ coldwarrior:
When James Brown got arrested for speeding his wife actually claimed that as Ambassador of Soul he should have diplomatic immunity.
@ Speranza:
WTF!
Sean Penn meet Maria Conchita Alonso. Be a man for God’s sake.
@ The Osprey:
Wouldn’t you agree that perhaps Ambassador Spicoli would like to be at the Argentine Presidential Palace when Great Britain lobs a nuke onto it?
Speranza wrote:
i love that!
1389AD wrote:
<blockquoteTo a lefty, the normal rules of ANY kind of decorum don’t apply. In fact, the concept of decorum is foreign to them. That’s why it’s okay with them when people poop and copulate in the street.
There, fixed that for ya!
Rodan wrote:
It’s a true story. It took place in South Carolina.