Jeanne Kirkpatrick was right, we should have told Margaret Thatcher that she would be on her own and that we would not take a position on the Falklands. To say NOTHING of the fact that what she did was in violation of the Monroe Doctrine anyhow.
Unlike others on this site, while I admire the support the Poms have given us in the MidEast and in WWII, I don't slavishly worship the Brits, nor do I think of them as "brothers" anymore than the Taiwanese or Costa Ricans.
1. British ownership of the Falkland Islands preceded the Monroe Doctrine which, under international law, cannot be retrospective.
2. Why do you think the Monroe Doctrine is binding for Britain anyway?