Chavez Vows Revenge for Falklands War
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brickhistory : according to my copy of Falkland Islands Shores, in 1831 USS Lexington booted the Args off the islands after they'd arrested three American ships, and then declared the islands free of all government.
Give it about ten posts and someone will be along to reassure you that it's all America's fault, just like everything else.....
Give it about ten posts and someone will be along to reassure you that it's all America's fault, just like everything else.....
Why wait that long?
In a way it is America's 'fault', since under the Monroe Doctrine, the US SOP should've been to be most upset when we claimed them in 1833.
However, they chose not to object, and we stayed there. So it's all the Americans' fault...
In a way it is America's 'fault', since under the Monroe Doctrine, the US SOP should've been to be most upset when we claimed them in 1833.
However, they chose not to object, and we stayed there. So it's all the Americans' fault...
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You are all acting like a bunch of parents spelling words out in front of the kids - have you ever thought of what the Falkland Islanders would want - no I thought not!
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have you ever thought of what the Falkland Islanders would want - no I thought not!
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perhaps we went to different Cuba's?
Eastern,
I appreciate your sentiment and your point is well made, however, if I compare literacy rates, child morality and welfare states of Cuba and parts of the great US of A, for example,I know where i'd rather be if I was poor. *Points to the poorer residents of New Orleans*
There's no begging in Cuba, unless it's for the tourists and there's no police around.
I've done Havanna and Varadero as well. (The sky-diving was awesome!)
Sorry for the thread drift. Just felt the need to defend an unjustified (IMHO) attack on Cuba.
I appreciate your sentiment and your point is well made, however, if I compare literacy rates, child morality and welfare states of Cuba and parts of the great US of A, for example,I know where i'd rather be if I was poor. *Points to the poorer residents of New Orleans*
There's no begging in Cuba, unless it's for the tourists and there's no police around.
I've done Havanna and Varadero as well. (The sky-diving was awesome!)
Sorry for the thread drift. Just felt the need to defend an unjustified (IMHO) attack on Cuba.
