http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2012/04/06/falklands-at-last/ What makes a great picture? Tue, 21 May 2013 16:31:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2012/04/06/falklands-at-last/comment-page-1/#comment-348350 Beee_rock Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:35:03 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/?p=27557#comment-348350 Interesting that your final comments state that nothing there resembles Argentina. Which begs the questions "why fight over them in the first place?". St. Pierre and Miquelon islands are 20km off the coast of Canada and are legally part of France. I don't know of anyone in Canada worrying about that... granted, the land area in the Canadian example is significantly smaller, but the principal of ownership by proximity remains the same and should be stronger based on 20km vs. 500km. Bottom line for Canada - the principal isn't important enough to fight over... 'eh...' Interesting that your final comments state that nothing there resembles Argentina. Which begs the questions “why fight over them in the first place?”. St. Pierre and Miquelon islands are 20km off the coast of Canada and are legally part of France. I don’t know of anyone in Canada worrying about that… granted, the land area in the Canadian example is significantly smaller, but the principal of ownership by proximity remains the same and should be stronger based on 20km vs. 500km. Bottom line for Canada – the principal isn’t important enough to fight over… ‘eh…’

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