When I first saw it I thought it was a photoshop.
Posted on 06/10/2010 11:09:07 AM PDT by Nachum
Back in March I wrote a piece condemning Hillary Clinton’s foolish decision to side with Argentina’s calls for negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands. Three months on, she’s done it again. As Damien McElroy reported, the United States joined with the Organisation of American States (OAS) in an unanimously passed voice vote resolution eralier this week calling for negotiations between London and Buenos Aires, a position which is completely unacceptable to Great Britain. The United States should have firmly rejected the resolution as an affront to its closest ally, and as fundamentally against US interests.
Significantly, the resolution referred to the “Malvinas” Islands, and not the Falkland Islands, its official, internationally recognised name, another snub to the British position. Washington is acutely aware of the sensitivities involved in the use of “Malvinas”, and the British government launched an official protest over its use by a senior State Department official at a press conference in February.
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Hillary is an utter berk.
More typical Obama support for America’s allies.
Is it 2012 yet???
Indeed. People to have at your back.
When I first saw it I thought it was a photoshop.
Are we still allied with Britain?
First it was “al-Quds” and now it’s “Malvinas” - these socialists continue playing the “change the name” game.
What, no more British gifts to return? This is all thats left now..treason towards your allies? The boy who would be king has to go.
I agree with Hillary and the UN, there should be negotiations. They should go like this;
When the people of the Falklands want to be Argentinian, you can take over. Until then, you can lick my big, round balls.
Hillary Clinton is a glorified housewife with no diplomatic experience or training. She is an embarrassment representing an equally embarrassing Obama regime.
Ditto.
If the Faulkliners said we want to be free of England, well, I would side with them on that one. However, this is a case where a country is claiming ownership by proximity.
That was my reaction. In all of this did anyone think to ask the Falkland Islanders what THEY want.
Did GW forget to leave that list of our allies on the Oval Office desk? I think it was under that bust of Churchill.
Not a hope. The lives of thousands of people are secondary to some misty idea of post colonial sensitivity. There isn´t a single Argentinian who has lived or died on the islands but they ´feel´ that the islands are theirs.
To the people who live there they are The Falkland Islands.
I stand with the UK.
Here here. Never in my life have I seen a president who coddles our enemies and scorns our allies like this one. Nobody has ever been close. Both Obie and the PIAP are truly national disgraces.
Some friends of mine in the UK report that the mood in the UK is not good with regard to the merry band of morons in the White House. A bit from a recent e-mail from them:
“I think Obama is a hair’s breadth away from losing Britain as an ally. People, not just the government and CEO of BP, but the British people are pissed off with him. He’s been dubbed as Anti-British, and that, from Britain, is a very very bad sign.”
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