19 Dec 04
All the inhabitants of this island were forced to leave their homeland. They were under British sovereignty. About 2000 people were forced to transmigrate to make way for an airforce base.They were dumped in Mauritius thousands of milesaway without food,accomodation or provisions for work. They were destitute.
Yet the British spent billions of dollars defending 2000 Falkland Islanders against Argentina.
WHY DID THE BRITS LOOK AFTER ONE LOT BUT NOT THE OTHER?
19 Dec 04
Originally posted by TinorangatiratangaThe Faulklands is closer to Antartctica?
All the inhabitants of this island were forced to leave their homeland. They were under British sovereignty. About 2000 people were forced to transmigrate to make way for an airforce base.They were dumped in Mauritius thousands of milesaway without food,accomodation or provisions for work. They were destitute.
Yet the British spent billions of d ...[text shortened]... alkland Islanders against Argentina.
WHY DID THE BRITS LOOK AFTER ONE LOT BUT NOT THE OTHER?
19 Dec 04
Originally posted by TinorangatiratangaThe Americans (Raygun) told Thatcher to leave the Falklands and the Argentinian situation alone, but Thatcher needed a war to win the election.
All the inhabitants of this island were forced to leave their homeland. They were under British sovereignty. About 2000 people were forced to transmigrate to make way for an airforce base.They were dumped in Mauritius thousands of milesaway without food,accomodation or provisions for work. They were destitute.
Yet the British spent billions of d ...[text shortened]... alkland Islanders against Argentina.
WHY DID THE BRITS LOOK AFTER ONE LOT BUT NOT THE OTHER?
It went so:
US: "Sure Argentina, go ahead and take it."
Britain: "Yeah. Okay. NO WAIT...I NEED AN ELECTION WINNING POLICY! LET'S START A WAR."
US: "Uh...didn't we just say no?"
And so Britain went to war, Argentina lost and the US invaded Granada to give Thatcher a black-eye and a warning: Do as we want or else!
That's probably why Britain didn't help anybody else.
Unless this happened before the Falklands, then I really wouldn't know what the cause is.
20 Dec 04
Originally posted by TinorangatiratangaIt suited the British to keep the Falklanders there and the Argentines out - there was oil and fishing rights and Falklanders did not want to become independent.
All the inhabitants of this island were forced to leave their homeland. They were under British sovereignty. About 2000 people were forced to transmigrate to make way for an airforce base.They were dumped in Mauritius thousands of milesaway without food,accomodation or provisions for work. They were destitute.
Yet the British spent billions of d ...[text shortened]... alkland Islanders against Argentina.
WHY DID THE BRITS LOOK AFTER ONE LOT BUT NOT THE OTHER?
In Diego Garcia, there was no outside threat and the people would have wanted self-rule or independence, and payment for every warplane landed, ship docked and island used for target practice. So they were not an asset but a a liability to the Foreign Office.
Did it matter the Falklanders were white, the Diego Garcians black? Certainly I know of no cases where the British treated white settlers of a colony as badly as that.
20 Dec 04
Originally posted by steerpikeThe airforce base in question is also a US airforce base.
It suited the British to keep the Falklanders there and the Argentines out - there was oil and fishing rights and Falklanders did not want to become independent.
In Diego Garcia, there was no outside threat and the people would have wanted self-rule or independence, and payment for every warplane landed, ship docked and island used for target practic ...[text shortened]... know of no cases where the British treated white settlers of a colony as badly as that.
British Territory, Native Population, US Airforce base.
Doesn't make much sense.
I seem to recall that the British government won't let the islanders live in the UK either which is a further insult.