Sean Penn and the ghost of Galtieri

Couldn't help laughing at the latest twist in the Falklands saga; its Sean Penn to the rescue.  Perhaps unable to solve the intractable problems of Hollywood (rampant egos, recreational substance abuse and infinity swimming pools), Mr Penn has once again chosen to tackle those terrible world problems more suited to his enormous status in the great cosmic order of things. What might those be - nuclear war in the Middle East; Famine and terrorism in the Horn of Africa; Syria and the death of the Arab Spring?   

Er…nope. Matters of much greater seriousness - the Malvinas…

That’s the Falklands and the nasty Brits, an easy choice for a vitriolic (and monstrously bad tempered) left winger like Penn.  The Brits, in Mr Madonna’s fevered mind, still stand for all those evil things like colonialism (and what more proof do you need that to find a couple of thousand Brits living on a reasonably large stone in the south Atlantic), illegal wars, bad weather at Wimbledon and so on.

With new best friend, Mrs President of Argentina, Penn is now adding his weight (no chortling please) to the debate. Once again, Argentina wants the Falkland Islands back which, of course, has nothing to do with the rumour of oil in the whereabouts. General Galtieri must be laughing in his grave to find his cause now being advanced by a self-righteous Hollywood featherweight like Penn. All the more is the irony if one considers that,  in his day the grim Generalissimo would almost have certainly have considered detaining Mr Madonna as a dangerous left wing-liberal type.