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**Smalmslobby** · 05-07-2012, 06:33 AM

There isn't anyone else there.

Things would be different if Argentina had been allowed to retain control of the Islands.

Um yes you did. You said we should "repatriate" everyone who wishes to remain British. Since that's everyone on the islands, and that they don't want to leave, nor do they wish to be ruled by Argentina, how else would you do it but forcibly? I imagine many will want to leave when the Islands changes hands.

They're your nation's subjects. If you're willing to sacrifice the lives of 255 British servicemen and hundreds more Argentinians for their benefit, I imagine your government would feel some obligation to help relocate those who wished to do so, no?

I think you know exactly the point I'm trying to make. If US territory was invaded by a foreign power, regardless of how it was come by originally, would you expect the US government to tale action? Yes or no? The only foreign power that has even the remotest legitimate claim to a US occupied property is Cuba's claim to Guantanamo Bay naval base.

And yet you (people of European origin) are still there and running things. Why don't we "repatriate" all the people of European origin in the United States and give it back to its rightful owners, namely the native Americans? Even if such a thing were feasible, Native American concepts of territorial ownership is quite different from Europe's, and the idea of nationalism non-existent. It might be another story if most of America were unpopulated, but it's not. The Falklands are. There are apartment towers in New York that house half the number of Falkland Islanders FFS.

It's amazing the absurd lengths some of you brits will go to justify your imperial past. Whereas the French, Spanish, Dutch, and Americans by and large feel remorse for their colonialism, the British seem to think it was some lost Golden Age and not all that bad for the conquered and colonized. You hide behind the respect for the opinion of Islanders because you know they would never vote to secede from Britain, and you wouldn't allow it if they did. History is littered with millions of corpses of those trying to overthrow British rule. The real reason you oppose returning the Falklands is because it would be just another painful reminder of the demise of your nation's empire and increasing global irrelevancy.

05-07-2012, 06:33 AM	#23
Smalmslobby Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 403 Senior Member	There isn't anyone else there. Things would be different if Argentina had been allowed to retain control of the Islands. Um yes you did. You said we should "repatriate" everyone who wishes to remain British. Since that's everyone on the islands, and that they don't want to leave, nor do they wish to be ruled by Argentina, how else would you do it but forcibly? I imagine many will want to leave when the Islands changes hands. They're your nation's subjects. If you're willing to sacrifice the lives of 255 British servicemen and hundreds more Argentinians for their benefit, I imagine your government would feel some obligation to help relocate those who wished to do so, no? I think you know exactly the point I'm trying to make. If US territory was invaded by a foreign power, regardless of how it was come by originally, would you expect the US government to tale action? Yes or no? The only foreign power that has even the remotest legitimate claim to a US occupied property is Cuba's claim to Guantanamo Bay naval base. And yet you (people of European origin) are still there and running things. Why don't we "repatriate" all the people of European origin in the United States and give it back to its rightful owners, namely the native Americans? Even if such a thing were feasible, Native American concepts of territorial ownership is quite different from Europe's, and the idea of nationalism non-existent. It might be another story if most of America were unpopulated, but it's not. The Falklands are. There are apartment towers in New York that house half the number of Falkland Islanders FFS. It's amazing the absurd lengths some of you brits will go to justify your imperial past. Whereas the French, Spanish, Dutch, and Americans by and large feel remorse for their colonialism, the British seem to think it was some lost Golden Age and not all that bad for the conquered and colonized. You hide behind the respect for the opinion of Islanders because you know they would never vote to secede from Britain, and you wouldn't allow it if they did. History is littered with millions of corpses of those trying to overthrow British rule. The real reason you oppose returning the Falklands is because it would be just another painful reminder of the demise of your nation's empire and increasing global irrelevancy.
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