This issue is quite clearly not going to be resolved by the 'My gun is bigger than your gun' type mentality.
The pen has ALWAYS been mightier than the sword and this issue needs wise people writing wise words. We need to somehow educate those that see Great Britain as being a colonial nation that is occupying a small country. We need to let the World see that the population of the Falkland islands are free to vote for their own destiny, it is solely down to those people to have the final say.
If we start throwing more and more men, women and hardware onto those islands then what type of image does that send out to those that claim we are a colonial people that rule over the proud people of those islands.
Jaw, jaw should trump war, war
a C-17, an E-3, a Few GR4's and Tiffys carrying the aformentioned Stormshadow/PWII/PWIV/Brimstone just to remind the Argies of the fact. Would shut Sharky and Woodward up as well
Would it?
Where would we get those aircraft from and what operation would suffer if they were deployed? We can all mock those two individuals but they have a RIGHT to be listened to.
John