The Falkland Islands debate

[Andrespetmonkey]

drkohler said:

Andrespetmonkey said:
Argentina will argue that the original population were kicked out and the islands shouldn't belong to a country thousands of miles away. It's a tricky situation only made trickier by the oil. In my opinion it's up to the current population to choose despite whatever happened in the past.

Actually the islands were discovered by the British, but first settlers were French. Since there were no frogs to eat, they turned the islands over to the Spanish. Then the Spanish gave up and some Bitish/Scottish troops moved in. Argentinians never settled on the islands. They have just been complaining endlessly because the islands are close to their coast. And no, the islands are not a tourist attraction, it basically is cold and it rains. A lot.

I never said the argument was legitimate, that's just what I heard an argentinian ambassador say on CNN or something :P Also never said anything about tourism, I know what the islands are like.