[mainestategop]

The thing that liberals are really huffing and puffing about on youtube is her sinking.

The ship was loitering near the exclusion zone, turning to home and back again in a matter that made it appear to be loitering. meanwhile another Argentine task force had launched exocets at the RN task force and aborted and there was another task force nearby.

The British feared a pincer attack by the Argentine navy, the RN admirals were hesitant to order the ship sunk because the left would throw tantrums and they practically held a monopoly over the press.

Maggie ordered it sunk. The HMS conqueror, a nuclear sub launcehed the attack and sank the Belgrano.

After she sank the entire Argentine navy panicked back to home port.

shortly thereafter, the far left condemned Maggie as a war criminal for having the nerve to defend her majesty's navy from hostility.

Based entirely on what the left said, the sinking of the Bismarck could quantify as a war crime. The Bismarck and prinz Eugen was on her way to port at Brest France according to survivors. The Argentinians also claim the same thing about the Belgrano even though it was loitering danerously close to the RN taskfroce as to pose a threat.

Despite Argentina being considered a fascist country at the time, the left took sides with the fascist junta over Britain.

[BlueLancer]

There is something the moralists overlook,
Or more likely don’t give a damn about,
When they cry: “Pity the beaten foe!”
What they’re saying, in effect, is:
“Kill our fellows tomorrow rather than the enemy today.”
But they don’t care to have it put to them like that.
They want their wars won clean and comfortable, with a clear conscience;
Their consciences being much more precious than their own soldiers’ lives.

General Sir Harry P. Flashman
"Flashman and the Mountain of Light"
George McDonald Fraser

[dfwgator]

Brezhnev took Afghanistan.
Begin took Beirut.
Galtieri took the Union Jack.
And Maggie, over lunch one day,
Took a cruiser with all hands.
Apparently, to make him give it back.

[JimRed]

Despite Argentina being considered a fascist country at the time, the left took sides with the fascist junta over Britain.

Nothing new or unusual about that.

[Nifster]

And it’s Tommy do this
And Tommy do that
And Tommy we never knew ye

[Snickering Hound]

‘Battleship’.

Stopped reading right there. The ‘General Belgrano’ was a former Brooklyn class light cruiser.

[spintreebob]

When Thatcher shut down the coal mines is was bad.
When Obama shut down the coal mines it was good.

Is that relativist morality or just irony?

[Dahoser]

Stick it, snowflakes.    Signed, Maggie T