”As BillD implied but did not say, the war for the Falkland Islands was a tragedy for many of the people involved in it. It takes a lot of digging and stretching to find any discernible benefit to anyone that could not have been achieved through diplomacy -- if either of the parties to the dispute had been willing to do more jaw-jaw.”

Spot on, Charmion, the best post on this thread. The Falklands War (or ‘Conflict’ as the nit-pickers seem to prefer) was an avoidable disaster, and absolutely nothing to celebrate.

As Dick rightly pointed out, this thread was started as ‘the point of view of right-wing imperialistic ideology trolling and a bit of political provocation’.