The Falklands And Argentina

From Yahoo News:
"Argentines seek peaceful resolution in Falklands"

Despite weeks of overheated rhetoric, there seems to be zero hunger among Argentines for another "military adventure" no matter how much they want to reclaim the islands 300 miles off their southern shores. Every Argentine schoolchild is taught that the British stole the Malvinas, as Argentines call the islands, as well as the South Georgia and South Sandwich islands nearly two centuries ago, claiming along with them a huge expanse of the South Atlantic. But hardly anyone here wants to use force to recover them, least of all President Cristina Fernandez. She has ordered the declassification of the Rattenbach Report, a long-secret analysis of mistakes made as the 1976-83 military junta went to war with Britain in 1982. She said she wants it understood that her campaign to recover Argentine territory will remain one of diplomacy and economic pressure. Argentina's dictatorship invaded to cover up its torture and killing of political opponents and distract people from a devastated economy, Fernandez said. "They couldn't think of anything better to do than send unprepared boys to a suicidal war." A total of 649 Argentines and 257 Britons died in the 74-day war, humiliating the junta and hastening Argentina's return to democracy. Declassifying the report, which described the invasion as a poorly planned "military adventure," will show "it wasn't a decision of the Argentine people, but of a despotic government," Fernandez said. Almost three-fourths of Argentines, cutting across all ages and classes, say recovering the islands is important, and more than two-thirds said they support Fernandez's campaign, according to the Ibarometro polling firm. Nearly 79 percent of those surveyed favor diplomacy or negotiations to resolve the dispute. Fernandez has persuaded her South American allies to close their ports to Falklands-flagged vessels — itself a largely symbolic move because it doesn't include banning the fishing fleet that operates under Falklands government licenses. Fernandez also has suggested she might close air space to the weekly flight by Chile's LAN Air Lines to the islands.

^ The first part of the article makes Argentina out to be the victim and you feel sorry for them, but towards the middle and definately by the end you loose that apologic attitude. Argentina should accept the fact that they won't ever get the Falkland Islands back unless the British decide to give it back to them. No amount of imposed isolation or blockage will force the British to change their stance (just as the war in the 1980s was lost before it started.) If the Argentinian President really believes in a diplomatic solution to the Falklands then she isn't doing a good job so far. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/argentines-seek-peaceful-resolution-falklands-;_ylv=3