Oh my god... not the 'tin foil hat' counter argument! How original, how breathtakingly creative! I just don't know how to reply to that.
If 'Black helicopters!' is all you can reply with Steve then I'll just offer my thanks for your participation. You tried your best.
Bravado aside, the Falklands may have been solved diplomatically. And the satan worshipping Maggie certainly benefitted from the war. Prior to the conflict it was our own Foreign Office that made overtures about handing the islands back to the Argentinians, coupled with the MOD announcing that it was to get rid of HMS Endurance - the only permanent naval presence in the area.
These events, didn't exactly give the impression we wanted the place to a nationalistic dictatorship a few miles away. The whole thing started because of a huge diplomatic balls-up.
So Thatcher, who was quite prepared to put whole industries on the scrap heap and raise unemployment to levels not seen since the 30s in the name of reducing the tax burden, writes a blank cheque and hands it the military.
