Read somewhere that Britain and Argentina fighting over the Falklands was a bit like two bald men fighting over a comb....but that was before we all cared that the underside of the Southern Ocean was chocker block with black gold. Now that we do care, Dubya is bound to want to be involved, because, like, you know, he's kinda interested in the stuff.
Yanks involved or not, if it came to another scrap you Poms would probably win, because you usually do. Precisely how is anyone's guess; it must be a real bone of contention to those regimes the world over and throughout history that they can have rows and rows of shiny hardware, and lots of jackbooted, goose-stepping people in really fashionable uniforms, and still get rolled by a bunch of irreverent, knock-kneed, spotty herberts happily turning the globe pink with a culture based on beer and fart jokes.....little do they know that this is actually the secret....