A Woman of Consequence

A historian looks at the legacy of the Iron Lady.  Oh, and she was right about the euro too.  How about this for our quote of the day:

The reaction to Margaret Thatcher’s death is painfully predictable. 

The right is honoring her service in standing up to socialism and communism at home and abroad, while the left is vilifying her for standing up to socialism and communism at home and abroad.

As someone else said, Maggie Thatcher p*ssed off all the right people, and I think that is a honorable epitaph indeed.  Anyway, look at this, this, this, and this:

HopeChange Chronicles: the Falklands Flap

Are you kidding?  This administration seems bound and determined to cut every ally off at the knees while sucking up to those who are not allies and never will be.  Hey, doesn't anybody care what the actual residents of the Falklands actually think?  They overwhelmingly consider themselves Brits, you know.

What Fresh Hell Is This? -- the New Falklands Debacle

*Sigh*

*More sigh.*

Obama, Argentina, the Falklands, and the UK: A Rant By Nile Gardiner

It is a magnificent rant, too. Here's a teaser:

Even by the relentlessly poor standards of the Obama administration, whose doctrine unfailingly appears to be “kiss your enemies and kick your allies”, this is a new low.

A related note: thoughts by Daniel Hannan and ChicagoBoyz. Obama does seem bound and determined to alienate all our allies, especially Great Britain -- a fact that I find both depressing and infuriating.