On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 20:31:30 +0100, "Jeroen Wenting" jwenting at
hornet dot demon dot nl wrote:

Argentina has since rearmed, Britain no longer has a third of the capability
to wage war compared to the last time.
And they're already engaged in Iraq, an operation taking up most of their
strategic transport capability.

I'm of the opinion that the Argentinians could very well succeed in taking
the islands and keeping them.

The RN capability is adequate to prevent that, and it would be
suicidal to try. Politically it would be a disaster for Blair either
way, so he will take steps to prevent anything ever happening.


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Jim Watt
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