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Falklands War: Margaret Thatcher
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British soldiers disembark at a jetty at San Carlos Bay during the Falklands War on June 1, 1982. The war ended two weeks later. "Aggression was defeated and reversed," Margaret Thatcher said yesterday.
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The Labour leaders under Michael Foot supported the sending of the task force – effectively approving the voyage to war. As a consequence, they were incapable of countering the Falklands effect (concentrating their energies during 1982-83 on attacking the Marxist wing of the party, expelling members of the Militant editorial board in 1983). Thatcher surfed to a landslide victory in the 1983 general election. She increased her majority by a hundred seats, to 144, though this actually concealed a decline in support for the Tories, who received 700,000 fewer votes than in 1979.
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Historical and political war plays and criticism exist, but few of those have made their mark on modern drama. The Falklands War, though little known on the world history timeline, made a stronger mark on modern English drama than on world drama. The afore-mentioned plays, Sink the Belgrano, Arriverderci Millwall, and Restoration, all reflected an attitude of their time. These plays showed audiences the playwrights' opinions of the war and the people involved with it, as well as a look into 1980s Great Britain. They served as a form of protest against the war, and of protest against Thatcherite lifestyles at the time.
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The war cost the lives of 255 British servicemen and Falklanders: well over 700 Argentines were killed (368 of them on the Belgrano), and the junta fell soon afterwards. It could have been averted had Britain shown clearer signs of wishing to retain the Falklands. PM Thatcher recognized that there was little choice between national humiliation (which might have proved fatal to her government) and the mounting of a complex operation at the very limit of logistic feasibility. The Argentine navy (the main mover for the invasion) was utterly outclassed and the army performed poorly, but the professionalism and fighting quality of the British armed forces was the deciding factor although luck, as always, played its part.
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That was the "good war" that carried Thatcher to re-election victory, a far cry from the "bad war" in Iraq bedeviling the currentand outgoing prime minister, Tony Blair. But with the growing crisis over the detained British sailors fanning the flames of patriotism in both Iran and Britain, and incessant criticisms of weak responses by the Foreign Office in nearly all British papers, Thatcher nostalgia is rising steadily, particularly in light of the similar US backing of Britain in both cases.
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Many, including Thatcher, argued the war had at last laid to rest the “Suez syndrome” – removing the inhibitions that had supposedly paralysed British governments since Britain’s disastrous invasion of Egypt in 1956. This was a myth that became one of the cornerstones of Thatcherism.
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