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<div class="entry"><p><P><br/>I'm beginning to realise that our victory in the Falklands was the defining event of my childhood. </P><P><img src="/blogs.telegraph.co.uk/user/daniel_hannan/falks.jpg" /><br/><STRONG>Veteran Falkland Island Defence Force members in Stanley</STRONG></P><P>I was living in Peru where,Toms Outlet, as you will imagine, opinion was solidly pro-Argentina. Every South American country except Chile backed Buenos Aires, of course, but in Peru it went further. Peruvians have always seen themselves as Argentina's key regional allies, fellows in the anti-Chilean cause.</P><P>Never mind that the sentiment is almost wholly unrequited,Toms Outlet, and that the Argentines, when they think of their auxiliaries at all, tend to dismiss them as rustics; when Argentina goes to war, Peruvians can generally be relied on to unfurl blue-and-white tricolours and blare their horns in support of their senior partner.</P><P>To wish, as Jane Austen observes, is to hope, and to hope is to expect. It never occurred to most Lime?��os that their allies might lose. What we were witnessing,lululemon canada, I kept being told by gloating Peruvians,lululemon outlet canada, was the eclipse of an elderly, creaking state by a young,“I will carry on bei,lululemon sale, virile one. Colonialism was over, and the New World was coming into its own.</P><P>By Heaven,Cheap Toms, how their tune changed when the Union flag was hauled up over Port Stanley. Almost overnight, sympathy swung to the victors. I remember watching a television programme in which a number of Peruvians were asked whether they would rather have been colonised by England or Spain. Apart from one old lady, who was grateful to Spain for spreading the Catholic faith, they all opted for Francis Drake.</P><P>"They'll like us when we win," says Toby in the West Wing, talking of the Muslim states. It was certainly true in Latin America in 1982. The Falklands victory suddenly made us,lululemon canada, not just players again, but a respected again. The English, people said,The exceptions bein, were <EM>personas muy serias</EM>: responsible people, decent people, gentlemen. In Shakespearean terms, we went from being Cleopatra's Egyptians to Caesar's Romans.</P><P>That is why what is currently happening in Iran has consequences that go beyond the Gulf. The Falklands invasion was launched against what looked like a declining power. The junta's calculation was that Britain would make a peevish complaint to the United Nations and leave it at that.</P><P>Today, the ayatollahs have made a similar calculation. They see a nation that is reducing its military capacity,lululemon outlet, whose population is agitating against overseas deployments,lululemon outlet canada, and whose Government is isolated in the counsels of the world. Like Galtieri, they have judged that we will complain to the UN and leave it at that.</P><P>What will it say about us if we prove them right? Ever since 1979, we have cosied up to the mullahs, tolerating their repeated violation of the norms that govern international relations. We have let them get away with violating the sanctity of embassies, with arming foreign militias, with sponsoring overseas terrorism,Toms Shoes,who have lost contr, with proxy assaults on our garrison in Basra. Now this. </P><P>And still we talk of humouring them with further concessions. Let there be no more nonsense about expressions of regret or recalibration of maritime borders, my friends. The end of that game is oppression and shame, and the nation that plays it is lost.<br/></P></p></div>

<div class="entry"><p><P><br/>I'm beginning to realise that our victory in the Falklands was the defining event of my childhood. </P><P><img src="/blogs.telegraph.co.uk/user/daniel_hannan/falks.jpg" /><br/><STRONG>Veteran Falkland Island Defence Force members in Stanley</STRONG></P><P>I was living in Peru where,Toms Outlet, as you will imagine, opinion was solidly pro-Argentina. Every South American country except Chile backed Buenos Aires, of course, but in Peru it went further. Peruvians have always seen themselves as Argentina's key regional allies, fellows in the anti-Chilean cause.</P><P>Never mind that the sentiment is almost wholly unrequited,Toms Outlet, and that the Argentines, when they think of their auxiliaries at all, tend to dismiss them as rustics; when Argentina goes to war, Peruvians can generally be relied on to unfurl blue-and-white tricolours and blare their horns in support of their senior partner.</P><P>To wish, as Jane Austen observes, is to hope, and to hope is to expect. It never occurred to most Lime?��os that their allies might lose. What we were witnessing,lululemon canada, I kept being told by gloating Peruvians,lululemon outlet canada, was the eclipse of an elderly, creaking state by a young,“I will carry on bei,lululemon sale, virile one. Colonialism was over, and the New World was coming into its own.</P><P>By Heaven,Cheap Toms, how their tune changed when the Union flag was hauled up over Port Stanley. Almost overnight, sympathy swung to the victors. I remember watching a television programme in which a number of Peruvians were asked whether they would rather have been colonised by England or Spain. Apart from one old lady, who was grateful to Spain for spreading the Catholic faith, they all opted for Francis Drake.</P><P>"They'll like us when we win," says Toby in the West Wing, talking of the Muslim states. It was certainly true in Latin America in 1982. The Falklands victory suddenly made us,lululemon canada, not just players again, but a respected again. The English, people said,The exceptions bein, were <EM>personas muy serias</EM>: responsible people, decent people, gentlemen. In Shakespearean terms, we went from being Cleopatra's Egyptians to Caesar's Romans.</P><P>That is why what is currently happening in Iran has consequences that go beyond the Gulf. The Falklands invasion was launched against what looked like a declining power. The junta's calculation was that Britain would make a peevish complaint to the United Nations and leave it at that.</P><P>Today, the ayatollahs have made a similar calculation. They see a nation that is reducing its military capacity,lululemon outlet, whose population is agitating against overseas deployments,lululemon outlet canada, and whose Government is isolated in the counsels of the world. Like Galtieri, they have judged that we will complain to the UN and leave it at that.</P><P>What will it say about us if we prove them right? Ever since 1979, we have cosied up to the mullahs, tolerating their repeated violation of the norms that govern international relations. We have let them get away with violating the sanctity of embassies, with arming foreign militias, with sponsoring overseas terrorism,Toms Shoes,who have lost contr, with proxy assaults on our garrison in Basra. Now this. </P><P>And still we talk of humouring them with further concessions. Let there be no more nonsense about expressions of regret or recalibration of maritime borders, my friends. The end of that game is oppression and shame, and the nation that plays it is lost.<br/></P></p></div>