Should the uk hand back the falklands islands to argentina and set a good exampel to the rest of the world?

Question

Should the uk hand back the falklands islands to argentina and set a good exampel to the rest of the world?

Answer 1

NO!The position of the Falkland Islands has been stated many times. Britain can't hand back to Argentina something that was never Argentina's in the first place!

Answer 2

no! the Falklands is part of the UK and the islanders want to be British, Lives were lost to keep it that way and why all of a sudden is everyone picking on Britain to be making examples.

Answer 3

Has anyone ever asked the natives there what they want to do as well? Either it be, maintain the status quo, go over to Argentinian hands or even go independent!

I prefer it remains under British rule myself.

Answer 4

Never. The Malvinas are Argentine, always have been. The fact the Brits invaded in early 1800's would not justify 'giving' them back.....there are too many people living there now under the british regime (even if they are clased as 2nd rate Citizens by the UK government).  

No dillusion here:  if the inhabitants wanted to be Brits, they would have moved to Brit long ago. They want to be left alone and follow their own community life.



Argentines have to prove their macho superiority and take them by force once again if they are wanted.

Answer 5

yep and why not give Spain Gibraltar back at the same time

stop been stupid the islands where never theres in the first place and ask the population what they want

RULE BRIT TANIA BRIT TANIA RULES THE WAVES

Answer 6

Should Argentina renounce their claim and set a good example for the rest of the world?

Answer 7

No,if they do some other nation that is a threat to the free world will just move in.

Answer 8

The only claim that Argentina have is that both they and the Falkland Islands were once part of the Spanish Empire. They have never had sovereignty, so we cannot hand them back. A basic tenet of democracy is that people should be able to determine their own destiny. The Falkland Islanders wish to remain British. QED

Answer 9

No, of course we should not. We lost over 250 of our servicemen to liberate our British citizens whose island had been unlawfully taken by the Argentinians, so why should we give it to them now? The islands are British and will always be so. The inhabitants of the islands are British and wish to remain so.

Answer 10

yes it is crazy that people consider an island 4000 miles away from Britain to be part of Britain

Margret thatcher sent people to die fighting over an island that contains more sheep than people

Answer 11

Why?  What kind of example would that serve?  That the British will fold under only the strongest apathy?  They fought a war two decades ago to keep them, so they must be worth something to them.

Answer 12

Don't think that all the men and women who fought in that war or families of those killed would agree with you.

Answer 13

Oh but then they wouldn't have anything to yomp across.

Answer 14

What do you meen hand them back they were never theirs in the first place

Answer 15

Thepeople in the Falklands don't want to be part of Argentina so no

Answer 16

Have you ever seen anyone from the Falkland Islands interviewed on TV?  They are as English as I am and they don't want to be part of Argentina so no we shouldn't just hand them over to a foreign power.

Answer 17

las islas malvinas fueron, son y seran por siempre argentinas

Answer 18

Wha sort of good example would that set? The people who have lived there for generations want no change to the status quo. How is forcibly handing over a people to a foreign power a good example? Decolonisation where the local population want self rule, like the British colonies of the 1940s-70s, is different from the silly course you are proposing. If the Argentines are smart they'll be nice to the Falklanders, not make life difficult for them.

Answer 19

Where would this end?  The USA becomes a British colony again; Spain regains South and Central America and Mexico, and most of the Pacific. Australi and New Zealand can be given back to the native islanders of both countries. The UK can become 4 nations again, but then the Scots really came from Ireland as the Europeans invaded Ireland and pushed them out; the Welsh are the true English; the English of today were invaders from from Euope too - i.e. Angles, Saxons, Normans. Do we return Europe and the mediterranean nations to control of Rome? How about returning most of the world to the control of Alexander of Greece (Macedonia), or the Babylonian empire, or the great Hittite empire. How far back shall we go with this concept of ownership?  Modern Israel does not cover the same area of biblical times, yet they can make a claim to more land, whereas the Arabs never owned any land there in history!

How did Spain first get Gibralter?  How did Spain control the Pacific?  How did Argentina get the Falkland Islands originally?  Invade and conquer was how territories were gained for all major nations.

No-one own any land. You may buy it but you cannot take it with you. When you die and are buried you think you own the land, but you are just renting it until another time. How many housing estates are now sitting over old cemeteries?  If the occupants of the ground owned the land then how did the developer buy it?

May be we should just realise that we are given use of the land and that we do not own it. Does it really matter who used to have claim to a particular country in the past?  Wea live in the now and not in the past and surely some things are more important?  Can we not live together or do we need to remind ourselves that mankind can be base and brutal towards the rest of humanity and still feel smug about everything they did?

Argentina showed they want to live in the past by invading the Falklands. The people there are British and wish to remain so. Argentina only renewed their claim becuase of untapped oil fields in the area and we only defended the islands for the same reason. Maybe if everyone could co-exist and money and wealth did not exist we would be able to see real value in life?

Answer 20

Firstly, the people of the Falkland Islands consider themselves to be British subjects.

Secondly we fought a brutal war and took terrible risks to kick Argentine forces out of the Falkland Islands in 1982 so what you're suggesting would be a betrayal of the sacrifice of the 232 British Serviceman who gave their lives.

And exactly what example would we be setting?

Answer 21

No,never,British blood was shed to hold on to these islands!