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Voice1 (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 07:28 AM Original message |
Falkland fear as Argentina steps up show of strength |
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lostexpectation (312 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
1. this was about oil too? |
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Voice1 (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 08:13 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I don't think it was about oil no |
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megatherium (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 07:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. self-delete. |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
3. If Argentina is overcome by Falkland revanchism, this would be the time... |
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Voice1 (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 08:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Yes, Indiana, it may be posturing |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 03:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. If the United States was ever invaded |
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fedsron2us (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 05:41 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. The more pertinent question is what would the Bush administration do ? |
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Voice1 (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-27-06 06:26 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Indeed, there were also tensions when the US invaded Grenada |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-27-06 10:57 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Grenada was already independent when the US invaded |
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Ignacio Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-28-06 10:39 AM Response to Reply #3 |
25. Correct |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
7. I agreed with Britain's actions during the 1980 Falklands war |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 08:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. But the effort to retake the Falklands was a bloody mess |
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greenleaf (64 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 09:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. no one likes to live under an occupation eom |
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Senator Obama (117 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-26-06 10:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Diplomacy did fail... |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-27-06 04:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. You are probably right about that |
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bigworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-27-06 10:43 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Thatcher probably welcomed the war to lift her own poll numbers... |
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Stella_Artois (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-27-06 06:09 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. Wow |
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Voice1 (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-27-06 06:28 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. As you say the case is hard to make |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-27-06 07:10 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Grenada was not a British territory when it was invaded |
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Voice1 (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-27-06 08:25 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Apologies, I phrased that wrong |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-27-06 10:32 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. The invasion was not only a betrayal |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-27-06 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
17. The article is about UK fears, not about a real threat to the Falklands. |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-27-06 04:42 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. So the inhabitants were irrelevant to the process? |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-28-06 10:17 AM Response to Reply #19 |
24. No, I don't believe that. |
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Stella_Artois (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-27-06 06:08 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Didn't harm them |
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