[Mashood]

Interesting that the US overlooks its own Monroe Doctrine concerning the Falkland incursions.

[Timocrat]

Interesting that the US overlooks its own Monroe Doctrine concerning the Falkland incursions.

Incursions ?

The Falklands are no different than Cayman Islands, Tristan Da Cunha, Turks and Caicos, Pitcairn Islands, Diego Garcia and all the other bits and pieces left over from the British Empire many of which the US uses from time to time e.g. Diego Garcia and air bases in Cyprus.

France doesn't just occupy some of its old colonies it actually incorporates them into France itself e.g. French Guyana in South America. It also retained a couple of islands in the Gulf of St Lawrence off the coast of Newfoundland.( St Pierre et Miquelon)

[tanknetter]

Interesting that the US overlooks its own Monroe Doctrine concerning the Falkland incursions.

Absolutely incorrect. The Monroe Doctrine only applied to 1.) establishment of new colonies and 2.) involvement in the internal affairs of Western Hemisphere nations.

Whether the British return to the Falklands in the early 1800s was the establishment of a new colony (as opposed to the reassertion of authority over existing territory) is debatable. What isn't debatable is that the US has for a very very long time supported the UK's claim to the Islands.

[Mr. Lucky]

Never let historical facts interfere with a good rant, but the British claim to the Falklands dates to 1690 at the very latest while the Monroe Doctrine wasn't announced until late in 1823. Argentina, by the way, didn't become a country until 1825.