Did the Americans abandon the British during the Falklands war?
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The people of Britain were staggered when America refused to help. Even more so because the Americans were seen to be siding with the pretty sordid dictatorship of General Galtieri. America sent the message loud and clear - stuff you Britain, we prefer the dictators on our doorstep. \n\nBritain went to the Falklands not just to defend its territory, but to defend its citizens there, who were now the prisoners of the Argentine forces. This was an honourable cause. \n\nThe Brits proved themselves still capable of amazing military logistics in delivering its Forces so fast and so massively into the South Atlantic way beyond the normal operating range of British air and sea power. That they did this without the help of their fairweather 'friends' the Americans, made the feat still more extraordinary. They even turned the ocean liners Canberra and QEII into fighting ships in a matter of days! They got short range Vulcan bombers (veterans of the 1950's) out of mothballs, patched them up and somehow got them in the air all the way, to accurately obliterate the runway in Port Stanley, denying the Argentine Air Force a landing strip and seriously compromising its capability - vital because the AAF was the only really effective element of the Argentine Armed Forces. \n\nAll this was done while the Americans sidled up to the despotic General and the French sold the Argentines the Exocet missiles that did such deadly damage to the Royal Navy.\n\nThis war is remembered with pride in the UK. The British Armed Forces proved once again they're the best. They proved it in the fighting and they proved it in the way they overcame the sheer enormity of the task of delivering a huge military force across the largest expanse of open sea without any friendly harbour or airport along the way - thanks to the Yanks.\n\nThe answer to your question is Yes - the Americans did abandon their greatest ally at a time when Britain truly needed them. Worse, they abandoned the Brits in favour of a a pretty gruesome Dictatorship .... and the British people, who are strong on loyalty and friendship, have harbourred the grievance ever since. America should bear that in mind.
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Spain, after the Spanish-American War.
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Falklands I think.  The others are in the pacific and much higher up
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saying the falklands war was a war was like saying the US conflict with grenada was a war.\nboth were no more than very serious war games.
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I can't answer your question specifically but I do know of a US Air Force member who was a Brit and had worked as a Bobby in London.\n\nCheck the web for a British military e-mail address and ask them directly.\n\nGood Luck.
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Sometimes I think it is all the fault of the American patriots, that they stooped to the (then unheard-of) tactics of shooting at the British from behind trees and bushes. They used these underhanded techniques, largely learned from the savages of the American continents, to compensate for their numerical inferiority. \n\nThough I share the beliefs and values of the Founding Fathers and their armies, though I cherish the freedoms we have as Americans, this still bothers me.\n\nThe success of the American colonials inspired the French Revolution, which was so bloody it is now known in history as the Reign of Terror. If only Louis had thought to give them a whiff of grapeshot and then fix bayonnets and charge the rabble away! There would still be a Louis on the throne of France. Instead, it only encouraged that unpleasantness with the Corsican adventurer and all the rest that followed.\n\nFor generations afterward, whenever a coup took place in South America, the mustachio'd 'gentlemen' would say, "We are not revolutionaries! We are freedom fighters! Not conqustadors, patriots! Not oppressors, liberators!" \n\nCommunism picked that theme up and ran with it for decades. Until it fell apart. Even now, there are some that think Communism has not been discredited; only that it has not been tried hard enough, long enough.\n\nCommunism funded many people and movements in Africa. And there was, and is, the tension between Islam and the rest of the world. Strategic materials such as chromium and uranium have provoked many a conflict. Less strategic materials such as gold and diamonds have also done so.\n\nIn the final analysis, I would have to say-- as old as it sounds, it is still profound-- the ends do not justify the means. Some may think that we, as Americans, cannot point the finger (given our own beginnings.) \n\nBut if we want there to be an end to this, someone must start. If we wait to begin until there is a nation that has never done such things, we will be waiting a long time.
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?  Which colonies are you referring to? \nThe United States were no longer considered "colonies".  The American government had been officially recognized by the British Government after the Revolutionary War.\n\nAre you refering to other countries/colonies that were used as military bases in the Atlantic during the war?
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How do we regain our democracy in 1983??\n\nWell the military who had taken the government fought and lost a war against England for the Malvinas (Falklands) Islands.\nAlso the Argentine economy was ill managed and people were tired of living in a non democratic country.\n\nSo the army lost the political power and they called elections
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i am ashamed that you would abandon your country.  you can stay in Canada.  we dont want people like you here.  hey, 3000+ American civilians were killed just a few years back, dont ya remember?
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Yes.\nIf you say no you forgot the history of USA
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we Southerners killed them two Yankees dead for every one Southerner killed. they don't wont any part of us.Especially South Carolinians or known for there fighting ability's. if your from  Britain, I say bring it on.we kicked your  butts.you ran.crying all the way home.My father wouldnt even purchase at a BP Gas Station. you have some enemys In South Carolina . still. to this day. your an idot for wonting to cause us to hate you even more then we allready do.Y'all burned down one of my people homes. and many of mypeople died fighting you folks. our family history is not just history.Its personal.You Sir can go to hell.if in fact your from Britian.
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The British hired Hessian (German) mercenary troops to fight the Colonists in the Revolutionary War.  Oops, that was before the USA was the USA.  America entered the War to end all Wars in 1918, but many Americans enlisted in the Canadian armed forces to fight the Kaiser before the US officially declared war on Germany after the Lusitania was sunk.
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Agree or disagree with the American contributions in the first and second world wars, one thing is certain. The Us is not capable of engaging in a conflict to support its own interest and sustaining the resolve required to win. We have surrendered to liberal heresy and are doomed to suffer the fate of a weak and conviction-less nation.
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after america beat england in the revolution, britian still had troops in america so the war was to have full rights to their land and get rid of the last of britians influence.
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Sense no you it make.\n\nIf you're on about the Falklands, I guess it must suck when your country is such a wuss it gets beaten by another country.  Tough luck.  We've got over the Falklands war and forgotten it - it was over a quarter of a century ago.  So sad you Argies are still crying over getting beaten.\n\nAnyway the Falklanders don't even want to be Argentinian.  \n\nSo tough luck, mate.
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Yes.  The long standing link between the USA and Britain just about ensured we would, even if the British high command wanted to use American troops as cannon fodder by putting them in the role of replacements in the line and the trenches.  Americans and British both can thank John Pershing for demanding that US troops were used and commanded by American commanders.
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American's became selfish.