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March 13, 2013

Sorry Obama, Falklands Stay British

Robert Taylor, American Spectator

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Britain has fought side by side with the U.S. for the last decade in Iraq and Afghanistan. So you would have thought that President Obama might offer Britain a little support on its most urgent foreign policy objective — the on-going efforts to stop Argentina swallowing up the Falkland Islands, lying vulnerably just 300 miles off its South Atlantic coast.

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