UK diplomats express concern over US indifference on Falklands

The Obama Administration appears more interested in placating our enemies than supporting our friends, such as Great Britain. In 1982 Argentina tried to seize the Falkland Islands by force. The British pummeled the Argentines and won back the south Atlantic archipelago.

Fast forward to 2010: The Argentines still want the Falklands, which are inhabited almost exclusively by people of British descent, but are trying to gain the upper hand through diplomacy.

From The Times:

British diplomats have expressed serious concerns to the US State Department at least three times over Washington's response to the latest dispute over the Falkland Islands, The Times has learnt.

In telephone calls and meetings, senior diplomats and specialists were forced to restate Britain’s position on sovereignty over the islands and seek clarification of the US position after a State Department spokesman in February answered a question about the Falklands by saying: "Or the Malvinas, depending on how you see it."

British anger over the Obama Administration's apparent indifference to the issue mounted when Hillary Clinton endorsed President Fernández de Kirchner's call for talks on sovereignty while she was in Buenos Aires last week, State Department sources said.

The new details of British complaints emerged as influential conservatives in Washington described the Administration's handling of the dispute as offensive, ignorant and a reflection of a lack of enthusiasm for the idea of a special relationship between the two countries.

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