This is one view of the situation....and as you can see is not that of the Obama Administration....and sums it up in a pretty straight forward manner.
Falklands Fallacy
Diplomacy: The U.S., which backed Britain when Argentina invaded its Falklands in 1982, has suddenly gone neutral on who has sovereignty over the islands. This is much more than a bad slap to our best ally.
Remember April Glaspie, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq who infamously told Saddam Hussein in 1990: "But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait." To Saddam, that was a green light from the U.S. to invade his tiny neighbor.
Today, we hear similar language from the U.S. on another territorial dispute that may take us down the same road.
But Arturo Valenzuela, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, reinforced the position on Friday. "It's not a matter for the United States to make a judgment on," he said in explaining why Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's March 1 meeting with Argentina's president wouldn't discuss the Falklands.
But we smell trouble. The sudden hands-off attitude even when allies are threatened comes as several sinking governments in the region are bringing up old territorial claims to regain their popularity and seize resources such as oil.
It's not just Argentina, whose budget shortfalls, pension confiscations, false inflation data and inability to win back the confidence of investors after a $100 billion default in 2001 leave it in the same sort of mood it was in when it tried to snatch the Falklands from Britain 28 years ago.
There's also Chavez, Argentina's top backer, who has trumpeted his desire to seize territory in Guyana known as the Essequibo on which Venezuela had a 19th-century claim. Chavez has also laid claim in recent months to the Dutch territories of Curacao and Aruba. And then there's Venezuelan military doctrine, which since 2005 declares that Colombia's alliance with the U.S. means it's no longer recognized as a sovereign country.
There's also Brazil's naval buildup, a development linked explicitly to defending its newly discovered oil fields from predators. It obviously thinks the threats are real, and it doesn't intend to rely on international treaties or any U.S. defense.
By curiously declaring a passive neutrality on the Falklands, the U.S. opens the door to all sorts of destabilization efforts. China and Russia have no doubt taken notice with our new stance as they eye Taiwan and remnants of the old Soviet empire.
As for the British, they are understandably aghast at our new position and wonder what the "special relationship" between the two countries now means.
Since World War II, the United States has honored the territorial integrity of nations as they stand.
Now the message is that any territory is up for grabs, with no state's claim any better than any other's, ally or not.