Posted on 11/11/2024 7:40:52 AM PST by Twotone
On this Remembrance Day/Armistice Day/Veterans Day comes news of the death of John Nott, British Defence Secretary during the Falklands War. This was his finest moment, as Mrs Thatcher's very straight man for the announcement of the first victory of that conflict - the first re-capture of British sovereign territory:
The "Rejoice, rejoice!" moment, as it came to be known, did not go down well with the anti-Thatcher types. But, if you have to take up arms against the foe, a ten-week war ending in the total destruction of your enemy is the way to do it. Period joke from the spring of 1982:
Q: Why has General Galtieri ordered a glass-bottomed boat?
A: To inspect the Argentine Navy.
Galtieri didn't need his glass-bottomed boat. Four days after losing the war, he was out of office and stripped of his presidential pension. The junta commenced to disintegrate and is known today as the última junta militar - the last junta - because there have been none since. Indeed, military dictatorship - hitherto a way of life in Latin America - crumbled across the region in the ensuing years, so discrediting was defeat by the toothless arthritic British lion. Mrs Thatcher wound up liberating a continent.
Not a bad ten weeks' work.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
In my time zone, it is the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Again, a spot on Steyn essay.
...or the edge of Bucksnort, Tennessee.
How about an igloo in Alaska?
Now why would we want to inflict that on Cleveland?
That does seem kind of mean to do to Cleveland. :-)
We’ve got plenty of desert out west. Somewhere’s around Death Valley, maybe?
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