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“A fight between two bald men over a comb”, was how Jorge Luis Borges described the Falklands war. What a line: somehow cruel and humane all at once. It has survived these four decades because it really is unimprovable in its Wildean economy.
What a shame it is nonsense. In that war, a junta was violently infringing the right of some islanders to self-determination. Or a faded…
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