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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
That's right, you don't. However, in my experience, the opinion of current or ex servicemen & women counts for far more and is better qualified than that of anyone else.
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Which is a handy way of shutting down debate, that I have seen more and more often recently. Someone debates the merits of an armed intervention and are dismissed because they themselves won't be doing the fighting. The Military has always been at the disposal of the Government and when someone joined the armed forces they follow the orders they are given. That's not to say their views are not important but they are not the only views that matter.
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Again with the opinion. The Falklands being "British soil" is not a given. That is the very crux of the issue at hand. If it were the case that the Falklands had simply detached themselves from Portsmouth or somesuch seaboard element of Britain several hundred years ago and elected to drift south then perhaps you might have a point.
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It's British soil. That is a given. It's people are British and it's owned by Britain. Just because Argentina want it doesn't make it disputed. If France started laying claim to the channel islands we would rightly tell them to go away.