Post by Johnmcd on May 20, 2005 21:33:27 GMT -3
Conflict Cessation.
Perhaps, like me, many will be looking towards the year 2007 as a milestone where, perhaps, this conflict might be resolved at long last.
Asking this question to myself I immediately find one a critical barrier. This is quite simply:
Does anyone really want resolution?
Are the islanders seeking resolution? One would naturally say yes of course they do since they do not wish to live under any threat to their self-determination. But, what if resolution was found that eliminated this threat to island sovereignty? Would the islanders feel then uncomfortable by not subsisting on a ‘status quo’ that has served their islands interests magnificently since 1982. Curious, isn’t it! No threat, freedom to unburden themselves from UK governorship. All gateways open and none closed.
Personally, I don’t think the islanders want resolution. Resolution is loaded word, I mean, if clear resolution was found - the islanders might still have their values and needs challenged. At the moment all their needs are being met - are they not? So removing the dispute would be disadvantageous to island life. The change that resolution could be expected to bring would be too much of a change for the islands. “Hmmm…better as we are now, not better, without dispute. Thank you very much!”<br>
What would Argentina be without the Malvinas quest? A nation made naked by allowing the letting go of national symbol. Maybe! It’s the pride thing, not just personal, but national in the extreme - going to the core of all things Argentine. Who cares if it’s a myth, if it is then its our ‘myth’ and no one else’s and we are going to pursue this myth until the Malvinas are returned.
Argentina had that day on the 2nd of April 1982. Anyone remember? The *Supreme Organ of state communication of the Junta reported to the Argentine people on that euphoric day:
“…with the help of God, that the legitimate rights of the Argentine people, postponed prudently and patiently for 150 years, has become a reality”<br>
A couple of months later and over 1000 dead - it was all over. Political and economic isolation followed. The work and principles of people like Roberto Alemann were also destroyed and only now, 23 years later, recovering.
So, does Argentina want resolution? No, of course not - no more than the islanders do. Argentina is used to putting up with difficulties the same as any other S. American country. They can put up with economic and political disaster, but not this defeat. They want pay back - regardless! The Malvinas remains the conduit where national identity, national bonding, can be targeted to project national hate. Not going to give this up - are they!!
Resolution therefore then is impossible. Only the Argentine demand can ever be met. Nothing else. Fin!
Is this true? Sadly, perhaps so, the islanders and the Argentineans will have their long lasting dispute continued - since it serves them both - quite well in fact - thank you very much indeed!
Not to upset both the islanders and the whole Argentine nation too much - but I do want to offer this:
This conflict is quite damaging. It hurts lot’s of people. We need not deceive each other on this fact any more than we do already. And really do not need any ‘Battle Plan’ to resolve this hurt. We already know what to do. This is where the reader of this posting can help. No, don’t just shy back into your safe corner! Listen with me for a while….
Now that we have absorbed all the conditions that created this dispute that caused so much hurt perhaps it is now the time to consider that the dispute is ‘homeless’ By that I mean - it has no where to go. If this is so, and I believe this to right, then we should start to understand the delusion that determines our current positions of right and wrong. Falklands or Malvinas. Neither is right.
(The islanders believe their identity is not recognized, that they are given less opportunities for development, and that their culture (and sometimes their existence) is under threat. Argentina, on the other hand, may also perceive the islanders as a threat to their security, especially if the islander leaders cooperate with ‘enemy’ countries)
None of this is true. Yet we deliberately lie to each other in order to protect this illusion. Such is the ‘hold’ and manufactured complexities surrounding this dispute. This can be so tiring.
Cessation to the dispute is not nebulous. It needs only an understanding of the impermanence that characterises this dispute. Those democratically charged with the welfare of their own people need to see each other - island elect together with the Argentine elect. I guess they will discuss permanent friendship.
Is it not curious that this has yet to happen?
Best wishes,
John.
*warning don’t type ‘Supreme Organ’ on your search engine. Ha!
Perhaps, like me, many will be looking towards the year 2007 as a milestone where, perhaps, this conflict might be resolved at long last.
Asking this question to myself I immediately find one a critical barrier. This is quite simply:
Does anyone really want resolution?
Are the islanders seeking resolution? One would naturally say yes of course they do since they do not wish to live under any threat to their self-determination. But, what if resolution was found that eliminated this threat to island sovereignty? Would the islanders feel then uncomfortable by not subsisting on a ‘status quo’ that has served their islands interests magnificently since 1982. Curious, isn’t it! No threat, freedom to unburden themselves from UK governorship. All gateways open and none closed.
Personally, I don’t think the islanders want resolution. Resolution is loaded word, I mean, if clear resolution was found - the islanders might still have their values and needs challenged. At the moment all their needs are being met - are they not? So removing the dispute would be disadvantageous to island life. The change that resolution could be expected to bring would be too much of a change for the islands. “Hmmm…better as we are now, not better, without dispute. Thank you very much!”<br>
What would Argentina be without the Malvinas quest? A nation made naked by allowing the letting go of national symbol. Maybe! It’s the pride thing, not just personal, but national in the extreme - going to the core of all things Argentine. Who cares if it’s a myth, if it is then its our ‘myth’ and no one else’s and we are going to pursue this myth until the Malvinas are returned.
Argentina had that day on the 2nd of April 1982. Anyone remember? The *Supreme Organ of state communication of the Junta reported to the Argentine people on that euphoric day:
“…with the help of God, that the legitimate rights of the Argentine people, postponed prudently and patiently for 150 years, has become a reality”<br>
A couple of months later and over 1000 dead - it was all over. Political and economic isolation followed. The work and principles of people like Roberto Alemann were also destroyed and only now, 23 years later, recovering.
So, does Argentina want resolution? No, of course not - no more than the islanders do. Argentina is used to putting up with difficulties the same as any other S. American country. They can put up with economic and political disaster, but not this defeat. They want pay back - regardless! The Malvinas remains the conduit where national identity, national bonding, can be targeted to project national hate. Not going to give this up - are they!!
Resolution therefore then is impossible. Only the Argentine demand can ever be met. Nothing else. Fin!
Is this true? Sadly, perhaps so, the islanders and the Argentineans will have their long lasting dispute continued - since it serves them both - quite well in fact - thank you very much indeed!
Not to upset both the islanders and the whole Argentine nation too much - but I do want to offer this:
This conflict is quite damaging. It hurts lot’s of people. We need not deceive each other on this fact any more than we do already. And really do not need any ‘Battle Plan’ to resolve this hurt. We already know what to do. This is where the reader of this posting can help. No, don’t just shy back into your safe corner! Listen with me for a while….
Now that we have absorbed all the conditions that created this dispute that caused so much hurt perhaps it is now the time to consider that the dispute is ‘homeless’ By that I mean - it has no where to go. If this is so, and I believe this to right, then we should start to understand the delusion that determines our current positions of right and wrong. Falklands or Malvinas. Neither is right.
(The islanders believe their identity is not recognized, that they are given less opportunities for development, and that their culture (and sometimes their existence) is under threat. Argentina, on the other hand, may also perceive the islanders as a threat to their security, especially if the islander leaders cooperate with ‘enemy’ countries)
None of this is true. Yet we deliberately lie to each other in order to protect this illusion. Such is the ‘hold’ and manufactured complexities surrounding this dispute. This can be so tiring.
Cessation to the dispute is not nebulous. It needs only an understanding of the impermanence that characterises this dispute. Those democratically charged with the welfare of their own people need to see each other - island elect together with the Argentine elect. I guess they will discuss permanent friendship.
Is it not curious that this has yet to happen?
Best wishes,
John.
*warning don’t type ‘Supreme Organ’ on your search engine. Ha!