Chi, can we knock off the silly bar-room ‘we saved your ass’ etc argument.
I find it frightening that so many Americans (and increasingly thanks to Hollywood, the younger gen of Britons)believe that.
Lets discuss the history maturely.
I am addressing this maturely which is why I paraphrase Churchill regarding the New World rescuing the Old after England and France totally blew their chances to stop fascism, brown, black, and red, early on. And there really was no compelling reason for our entry into WWI (in fact, we may all have been better off with the stalemate in the long run) other than our speaking the same language. As for the Falklands, check out the Monroe Doctrine; bold move and not so sure we’d get away with the same thing today.