Firstly, you see, the Argentine government (which you'll recall was put in place by the US) invaded the Falkland Islands in April of 1982.
The British responded by re-invading the Falklands.
(For those of you playing along at home, the Falklands have fewer than three thousand inhabitants.)
So who was on who's side?
Well at first the US was neutral. Then it was on the side of the UK.
(Hey -- whose side were the Israelis on? Why Argentina, of course. Apparently because they were already in Argentina.)
Then, a bit more than a year later, the United States invaded Grenada. No, wait. That actually happened. On October 25th, 1983 (I actually remember when I heard about this -- in Hebrew class in my brief stint in college.) The invasion by the United States was criticized by the British and Canadian governments. Granada was actually a British colony.
Now one wonders. There are a lot of BS reasons given for the US invasion of Grenada -- from trying to rescue college students who could have left at any time on regularly-scheduled flights, to saving the Grenadians from Communism or something. But the reality is that the US hit a Crown Colony. And it was a year after the UK went messing around in South America. Hmm...
Let's keep that in mind while we look at two major developments in American policy:
1. The changes of the US Military after the Grenada invasion
2. The eventual abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine
They may not find oil in the sea around the Falklands. In this case, Argentina quickly (and predictably) would forget the matter, the threat of war would vanish and the islanders would return quietly to fishing and care their flocks of sheep.
ReplyDeleteWhich is interesting. Now, would the UK forget about the Falklands if there's no oil? ;-)
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