The Falklands: Hillary Slaps Britain in the Face

That’s the title of Nile Gardiner’s posting today on his UK Telegraph blog. Since last week, Hope ‘n Change and his State Department savants have changed their position from “neutrality” to siding with Argentina in calling for “negotiations” with Britain over Falkland sovereignty.

Appearing with Argentine President Christina Fernández de Kirchner last night, Hillary dropped several astonishing bombs on Britain and handed a corrupt Peronist regime a propaganda victory. The State Department released the transcript of their remarks and here are a couple of jaw-droppers:

QUESTION: (In Spanish)
And for the Secretary, it’s about the Falklands. The – President Fernandez talked about possible friendly mediation. Would the U.S. be considered – would the U.S. (inaudible) consider some kind of mediation role between the UK and Argentina over the Falklands? Thank you.

PRESIDENT DE KIRCHNER: (Via interpreter) (Inaudible) what we have (inaudible) by both countries as a friendly country of both Argentina and the UK, so as to get both countries to sit down at the table and address these negotiations within the framework of the UN resolutions strictly. We do not want to move away from that in any letter whatsoever, any comma, of what has been stated by dozens of UN resolutions and resolutions by its decolonization committee. That’s the only thing we’ve asked for, just to have them sit down at the table and negotiate. I don’t think that’s too much, really, in a very conflicted and controversial world, complex in terms.

SECRETARY CLINTON: And we agree. We would like to see Argentina and the United Kingdom sit down and resolve the issues between them across the table in a peaceful, productive way.

And another:

QUESTION: (In Spanish)
Interpreter: The journalist was just asking how the U.S. intends to negotiate to get the United Kingdom to sit at the table and address the Malvinas issue.

SECRETARY CLINTON: As to the first point, we want very much to encourage both countries to sit down. Now, we cannot make either one do so, but we think it is the right way to proceed. So we will be saying this publicly, as I have been, and we will continue to encourage exactly the kind of discussion across the table that needs to take place.

As Nile Gardiner notes, Hillary knew precisely what she was doing. This is a direct slap at our oldest friend. As I noted in my post a few days ago, questions of sovereignty are very much over, yet the US has chosen to throw in with a corrupt authoritarian government that barely 20 percent of the Argentine people support. Remember, Christina Kirchner is the person who just seized private retirement savings accounts to fund the pensions of her unionist allies.

Clinton has demonstrated, not the first time, strikingly poor judgment as Secretary of State. While currying favour with a third rate kleptocracy in Latin America, she is alienating America’s most loyal and valuable friend at a critically important time. She also underestimates the resolve of the British people, who will never negotiate the future of the Falkland Islands. If the Argentines want the Falklands they will have to fight for them, and if they choose to do so they will be emphatically defeated, just as they were in 1982. Hillary Clinton can cry for Argentina if she wants to, but the Falklands will be forever British.

I feel sick.

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