Virginia Right!

There have been a lot of angry words about a small set of islands in the South Atlantic:  The Falklands.  (They are called Las Malvinas in the Latin American world.  NEVER on this blog!)  Argentina claims the islands based on a dubious early attempt to set up a colony there.  However, in 1840, Great Britain [...]

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I am greatly concerned about any intervention in a foreign dispute by the Obama Administration.  But the Falkland dispute is special because the answers seem so clear for me and I was confident that we would stand with the Falkland islanders’ wish to remain British would be honored by the US.  Now I read this [...]

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I can hardly believe it.  The United States is taking the position that Argentina should have sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.  Or are we? Nile Gardiner, a blogger for the Guardian, a UK newspaper, is sure that the Obama administration is siding with the Argentines (and Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela) on a resolution in the OAS [...]

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