If you'd like a "freakonomics" perspective, one could argue that the argies won...they just don't know they won, anymore than we know we lost.
After, all...we are the mugs flushing bundles of cash down the crapper looking after the worthless lumps of rock.
Oops, scuse me...forget about all the oil money we are going to get out of them one day.
yeah right.
PS
I was there...said at the time...go down kick the argies out (point of principle), give the Benny's a million quid to resettle (or stay there and take their chances) and then GTFO. Would have been a sh1tload cheaper