Remembering the Falklands

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Thirty years ago this week, the people of Great Britain woke up to find themselves in a completely unexpected war. With the surprise invasion by Argentina of the UK’s Falkland Islands, Britain’s national preoccupation with a dismal economy, energy, health care and other domestic issues suddenly was shunted aside.  Margaret Thatcher’s government and her countrymen threw themselves into mounting a challenging and enormously costly long-distance campaign to retake the islands. The Iron Lady succeeded, thanks to substantial help received from her close ally, our President Ronald Reagan.  It was an object example of the continuing validity of the Gipper’s principle of “peace through strength.” Lest we find ourselves even more surprised than the Brits thirty years ago, and have to pay even more, we better not abandon that principle today.

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Learn more at SecureFreedomRadio.com.