Jim Watt wrote:

On 2 Mar 2006 01:51:16 -0800, "
wrote:

You can act as now it's 1906 rather than 2006 as you want, but the fact
is that in 2006, only one country can militarilly scare the **** out of
another country situated thousands miles away, that country is the US,
not Russia, not China, certainly not Great Britain. And the history
does not make Britain that scary as well, after all, although Britain
won the previous war, the victory was not an slam dunk, thing could
easily turn out completely different

Tell that to President Chávez and Fidel Castro.

Britain has the resources to prevent an invasion, last time there
were a handful of marines. If Mr Blair has the political will to stop
it he simply has to tell the Royal Navy to use their initiative.

Its a long cold deep bit of sea from Argentina to the Falklands.

" Although the Royal Navy is now much smaller, it remains the largest
European navy, the second largest navy in the world in terms of gross
tonnage, and one of the world's most technologically advanced "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_navy

Graham