April 02, 2007

Alfred Thayer Mahan, you magnificent bastard!

Truth be told, I was basically ignoring Argentine squawking over regaining the Faulkland Islands until I saw this buried towards the bottom of one story:

As much as 60 billion barrels of crude lie in ocean-bed structures around the archipelago, which has been British since 1833.
Posted by Steve-O at April 2, 2007 04:00 PM | TrackBack
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Damn you BP! Damn you to Hell!!!!

Posted by: Dean Esmay at April 2, 2007 05:55 PM

I don't know -- that oil rumor last surfaced a quarter century ago when the Brits didn't want to look silly for defending sheep 8000 miles away. Not a word about it until recent sabre-rattling, and now its the Prudhoe Bay.

Personally, after the grind of the Middle East for the past few years I could understand the temptation to unleash the storied British regiments to once again protect man and mutton. Clean, straightforward intervention. But, alas, there's no Maggie anymore.

Posted by: TDP at April 2, 2007 07:43 PM

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Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at April 3, 2007 09:02 AM