{"id":28423,"date":"2012-01-23T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T11:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28423"},"modified":"2012-01-23T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T11:44:10","slug":"tossing-uk-under-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28423","title":{"rendered":"Tossing UK under the bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what would have happened in 1982 in regards to the Falklands if Jimmy Carter had been president instead of Ronald Reagan? well, we get a peak into that &#8220;what if&#8221; with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/nilegardiner\/100130943\/the-obama-administration-knifes-britain-in-the-back-again-over-the-falklands\/\">Jimmy Carter&#8217;s second term<\/a> being served by President Obama;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In response to a question on the Falklands at Thursday&#8217;s State Department press briefing, a US government spokesman supported direct negotiations between Buenos Aires and London over the sovereignty of the Falklands, something that Argentina has been pressing for aggressively, and which Britain sees as completely unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>As far is London is concerned, the sovereignty of the Falklands was decisively settled in the 1982 war when British forces retook the Islands after Argentina\u2019s brutal military junta invaded them. The Falklands\u2019 3,000 inhabitants are 90 per cent British (according to the 2006 census), and 0.1 percent Argentine, and have no desire to live under the boot of Buenos Aires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for the right of self-determination. What coulld this administration possible gain by letting Argentina pick at this scab? Well, except to maybe act like liberals. This is the second time this issue has been brought up in the last few months. Earlier last year, the US supported an OAS call for negotiation of the settles issue, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/06\/10\/obama-administration-backs-argentina-over-uk-on-falkland-dispute\/\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what would have happened in 1982 in regards to the Falklands if Jimmy Carter had &hellip; <a title=\"Tossing UK under the bus\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28423\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tossing UK under the bus<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}