https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/06/09/obama-takes-argentinas-side-in-falklands-dispute/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:13:25 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey and Fausta are both not getting why the President is taking the side of Argentina (thus sharing a podium with that noted beacon of freedom, tolerance, and capitalism known as Venezuela) in its perennial attempts to get the United Kingdom to give up the Falkland Islands. It&#8217;s not just that we&#8217;re signed on to the OAS declaration demanding that the British negotiate on the question of giving up territory that doesn&#8217;t want to be given up; we&#8217;re even endorsing Argentina&#8217;s blustering insistence on calling the islands by the prior name.  All in all, this is a fairly significant change: the question is, why?]]>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:30:59 -0400<![CDATA[Moe Lane]]>https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/06/09/obama-takes-argentinas-side-in-falklands-dispute-n39302