and need a reminder.

the best (worst) example of this is the Munich Conference in October 1938. The agreement made between Germany, Italy, France, and England decided the fate of Czechoslovakia. They just passed the country completely over to Hitler without any representation from the country.

The Germans were brutal to the citizens of the country. If you want to make your stomach turn, do some reading on Reinhard Heydrich (aka the Butcher of Prague). He was appointed by Hitler to be the governor of Czechoslovakia.

Sorry, I'm a Nazi history nerd. I couldn't resist.

but still devastatingly brutal in its effect on ingenious population.

From memory the lease runs to 2016 and then I think the US will ship out leaving the Chagos islanders to return from their exile.

would keep its hold on it as a military base anyway.

lease it.

The base is massive, and recently renovated. Given the threats posed by China, NK, and Al Qaeda affiliates, that base is too strategic to give up.

The airstrips are invaluable.

the UK will renew the lease.

From last year :

David Cameron to discuss Chagos Islands sovereignty with Mauritius.

The future of Diego Garcia, the British-controlled territory in the Indian Ocean used by the CIA for secret rendition flights, will be discussed during an unprecedented meeting next week between David Cameron and Navinchandra Ramgoolam, the prime minister of Mauritius, the Guardian has learned.

The meeting comes at a time when Britain, faced with a string of lawsuits, is under increasingly heavy pressure to return Diego Garcia and the other 54 islands in the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. Ramgoolam will be in London for the Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations.

Diego Garcia was used by the US to bomb Iraq and Afghanistan and for CIA rendition flights, including one putting a Libyan dissident into the hands of Muammar Gaddafi's secret police in an operation involving MI6.

The island is almost certainly used by the US for long-range bombers and would act as a military communications hub in any attack on Iran. That prospect is causing deep anxiety among British military chiefs, fearful of the consequences for UK forces in Afghanistan and the Gulf.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/30/david-cameron-chagos-islands-mauritius

abandon it.

Argentinian minister says he will not attend meeting at which representatives of Falkland Islands government are present
Julian Borger and agencies
Friday 1 February 2013 04.46 EST

... The Foreign Office said on Friday morning that the UK was not ready to compromise on the presence of Falkland Islands representatives.

"We are not prepared to have a meeting where the Falkland Islanders are not represented or where the Falkland Islands are not mentioned," a spokeswoman said. "We're massively disappointed by the Argentinian response."

Insisting on a Falkland Islands presence appears to be a new condition laid down by Britain for a ministerial meeting with Argentina. The Foreign Office spokeswoman said that because of the rising tension in recent months between the two countries over the islands "it would be unthinkable not to have the islands represented".

Timerman invited Hague to meet him in Buenos Aires, where he said "my fellow foreign ministers can freely meet with whomever they wish without being pressured or having their presence conditioned on meetings that they haven't asked for and don't interest them" ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/01/uk-disappointed-argentina-talks-falklands

"Brezhnev took Afghanistan
And Begin took Beirut
Galtieri took the Union Jack
And Maggie over lunch one day
Took a cruiser with all hands
Apparently, to make him give it back
Ooo, Maggie what have you done?"

The Czechoslovaks were not given a voice in the negotiations over the Munich Agreement which handed their country over to Hitler.

not to include the Falklanders in disposition talks.
They could try making joining with Argentina appealing rather resorting to childish name calling, threats, and invasion.
Why would the Falklanders trust the Argentine government at all?