Lonewolf
You're missing the point, What was simply being got at is that for a USA citizen to claim UK possession of the Falklands is "colonial" is ignoring the fact that the USA's control of the various Oceanic and Caribbean territories is equally colonial.
People like Penn (who incidentally isn't of Irish ancestry) who claim we have no right to be in the FI are ignoring their own countries equally questionable rights to control its territories. Either both the USA and UK are in legal possession, or both are not. Which is it?
Many of those USA held lands are held under a unilateral declaration that the USA could seize any island holding guano deposits that it fancied: basically the USA decreed that wherever there was unclaimed bird ****, it was theirs.
No-ones suggesting that the USA should have to give those islands up - after all if you like guano that much, you're welcome to it.