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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I’d say The Falkland Islands are “settled science.”

On FR? Heck there is a thousand thread post around here someplace debating if the Civil War settled anything. I don't think this site attracts the personality type that accepts settled. We were the annoying kids who kept asking our parents "but why?".

As for the Falklands both England and Argentina are in much worse shape militarily than they were back in the 1980s. The Royal Navy is a rusted shadow of the force that sailed to the South Atlantic on Margaret Thatchers orders. And the Argentine force is much smaller than it was back in the first Falklands war. And according to Jane's defense weakly their training isn't up to the level of class one militaries.

The proper response from the state department shouldn't have been a declaration of neutrality, but a copy of the face palm guy sent to both the British and Argentine governments. With the caption "Don't you socialists with bankrupt governments have better things to do?"

17 posted on 03/04/2010 6:45:44 AM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: GonzoGOP

The Brits don’t really need a surface fleet to steam ten thousand miles for a toe to toe with the Argentines.
One whiff of a UK submarine and the Argie navy will become a non-factor.


18 posted on 03/04/2010 6:51:25 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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