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>>>>tcha!
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>>>TCHA? Help me out here, bud.
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>>How does one spell an exclamation of disdain, such as the sucking of air through the teeth?
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>>We didn't have massively superior firepower. The war was won through luck and British pluck (luck & pluck), at a great cost in materiel.
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>>I've gone over this recently: In the 70s the Brits tried to give the Falklands to the Argentines but the islanders didn't want to be Argentine. The A's invaded, imposed their will on the islanders (such as stipulating that schools will now be in Spanish, drive on the right). A was ruled by a miltary S. American junta. How would you like it if your way of life was suddenly displaced by an alien, despotic regime? How would the US react if the Hawaian islands were suddenly taken over by, say, an imperialist Japanese force? (oh we know that, don't we). Granted, the wind-swept Falklands aren't nearly as pleasant a piece of real estate as Honolulu, but they are OURS. Just cos it was 1000s of miles away doen't mean it shouldn't be protected. What if the French suddenly decided they wanted the Isle of Wight, or the Channel Islands? Because they are handy we'd take them back, but if theyt were remote - don't bother.
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>>As I've said before, I think that a good compromise would have been to let the A's have the largely unpopulated West island. And it's not as if diplomacy wasn't given a chance. I believe the expression "shuttle diplomacy" was born in the US attempts to halt a war.
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>I still don't know what TCHA means, but I guess I'll live.

As I said "How DOES one spell an exclamation of disdain, such as the sucking of air through the teeth?". OK then: Bah!, Tsk tsk
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>You clearly have an unshakeable POV about this, so I will let it drop.

Not clearly so. But you make a sweeping statement about the futility and stupidity of the Falklands campaign, I defend it with what I see as a logical purpose for it, then you just neither refute that or agree, but just say "drop it". Of course I know it was partly Thatcher bolstering her waning political career with a Bodicea image but there was other logic to it. Just put yourself in an islander's or Brit's shoes.