<div dir="ltr">A British possession? Technically. It gets all its food, water, energy, and all else from Argentina. May the Sun set on the British Empire! The Monroe Doctrine deals with Real Estate in the Americas, not what country settled it.<div>/s/ Richard</div><div>_________</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Jeffrey E. Salzberg via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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The case could be made – and, indeed, was made – that the
Falklands were a British possession that was attacked by the
Argentinians. In fact, you just made that case yourself; "The
Falkland Islands" is the British name. Argentina calls them "Las
Malvinas".<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Distrust for the Government is not unfounded. The
first Clause of the Declaration of Independence explicitly says
that if things get intolerable, you can leave, yet 70 years
later, the North stopped the South from leaving. The Monroe
Doctrine stated that we would repel European aggression
attacking North, Central, or South America, yet when the
Falkland Islands, just off Argentina's coast, was attacked by
England, we took England's side.<br>
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