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Why is the Obama administration siding with Argentina against Britain?

9:10 AM, Jan 30, 2012 • By JAIME DAREMBLUM

In 1982, Argentina’s right wing military junta launched a sudden invasion of the Falkland Islands, the South Atlantic archipelago that has been a British possession since 1833.

The point is not to reward one’s enemies and punish one’s friends.

Mar 22, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 26 • By SETH CROPSEY

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Mar 8, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 24 • By

While most of Washington was focused on the White House “Health Care Summit” on February 25, something far more interesting was underway on Capitol Hill. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee showed up to work that day to find that a new provision—the “Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Interrogations Prohibitions Act”—had been inserted in the bill that funds U.S. intelligence activities for 2010.

Obama Refuses to Endorse British Sovereignty over the Falklands

Meanwhile, British forces continue to fight and die alongside U.S. Marines in the Helmand...

4:10 PM, Feb 25, 2010 • By JOHN NOONAN

The Times of London, in a story that borders on the passive-aggressive, is reporting that President Obama has refused to endorse British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. The short skinny of this is that there's another Buenos Aires-London row over the rightful ownership of the islands (you may remember that the last such incident ended in rather poor results for Argentina), incited by a British proposal to drill off the Falklands coast. Mostly, though, it's the standard Argentinean response to poor internal economic conditions.

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