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Originally Posted by Marcantilan
An Argie point of view.
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Bearing this in mind, I want to make clear that no slur was intended in my first post - 'damn argies' being a tounge in cheek statement, not some deep seated hatred or whatever.
Remembering way back then, I would have been at primary school or something, so any direct influence to me was minimal to say the least. In my view this was a fight over a principal more than anything else; if no-one had been looking, or if international appearances were not important to world leaders/countries, then I doubt that a great deal of fuss would have been made over such a windswept and (by all accounts) inhospitable bit of rock in the middle of nowhere. Still, I suppose there are countries who have gone to war for less...
Having said that, the choice of who the islands belong to is really a question for the folk who have their homes there imo. So if the 'currrent majority' want/wanted to be british, so be it... I'd probably feel the same way if they wanted to be argentinian.
All too often (and I do not exclude the UK from this) countries dwell needlessly on the past and of history long gone- pretty much every border dispute since the year dot is based upon this simple, if irrational precept. 'Great Brittain' owned half of the world at one point and they didn't get it by playing fair, it's true, but what have we now? where is the 'empire' today? dead and consigned to the history books where it belongs. The days of empire building are over... for us brits anyway
