Sorry Joseph A. Borg, but you’re on the wrong track. What you’re talking about is hardly relevant to what I’m saying.

Now had you referred to the 1970s Kissinger deal that’s about to expire – the we-cap-our-oil-and-buy-yours-while you-buy-our-debt deal – then I would have sensed you were on the right track.

Here are some pearls – which I’ll throw randomly here for all to sniff. After the region is inflamed, and the Kissinger deal expires in the form of a double-cross, the Saudis and their satelites will be left holding worthless treasury bonds in the trillions, while the capped oil in the US will be uncapped, not to the benefit of the American people, who will have to pay over $200 a barrel for their own oil in the new global currency, but to the benefit of the globalists who own them and whose country is the globe.

There, now have a good laugh.

kev, I’m sure the US has some plans archived somewhere about invading Malta. They have plans on invading the UK, and France and Italy.

AFAIK part of a general’s job is to take part in the theoretical invasion plans and war gaming new technologies, tactics and strategies. Iraq’s invasion was war gamed well before Rumsfeld/Cheney came around with their invasion lite and the outcome was always negative unless the US military went in with a massive force. That’s what Shinseki said.

By the same token, I’m sure the CIA and part of the diplomatic corps (civilian as well) has its fingers meddling around all countries of interest (natural resources & weak governments/dictators). I assume you read the Quiet American. What Iraq and Afghanistan and Cuba’s Bay of Pigs and the uprising against Chavez etc… have shown is that unless the people are ready to die for the cause then there’s nothing much that a foreign force can do short of a massive invasion to pin down the territory from day one.

This is an indigenous revolution the effort is local period.

On Xarabank tonight, the Graffiti guy asked why we and Europe didn’t act before. If there wasn’t a strong enough indigenous upwelling of protest, then a European intervention would have been a very expensive fool’s errand. Kif jghid il-Malti: tidħolx bejn il-basla u qoxrità għax tieħu reħita.

Kev, you are unbelievably tiresome.

It’s not surprising that you’re more concerned about Dalli being ‘right’ than his being out of order, seeing as you’re more concerned with international conspiracies than with what is really going on in Libya.

In your determination to labour a point, you say some astoundingly stupid things. If Dalli was out of order, then he was not right. Period.

Yes, that’s right. He wasn’t just nattering away to his wife (purse – not bag – tucked under armpit), daughter and extended family at some Portomaso cafe in relative privacy. Even there, one should “izomm id-dekor”, ahseb u ara meta jitkellem fil-pubbliku bhala reprezentant Malti.

We wait with bated breath. Something tells me this is going to be as thrilling as Gaddafi’s book of short stories, “Escape to Hell”.

Ciccio2011, I lack the patience to go through the whole thing. The BBC and their cohort are experts in the art of deception.

I’ll just say one thing: this sudden change of heart towards the people of Libya is neither serendipitous nor incidental.

Why was the BBC mum all the while Gaddafi was being propped up by Western leaders, yet it goes into this deceitful frenzy only now when the time is ripe? The propping up is certainly not helping today, so why? Is the BBC so callous towards its ostensible public mission?

The answer is in the question. It is all a matter of timing. That’s right, this ‘Jasmine revolution’ across the Arab world was not only foreseen, it was predetermined, which does not necessarily mean ’caused’ as much as it was ‘allowed to happen’ and its way paved.

If I have time I will outline some interesting insights emerging from the alternative media (which is where REAL investigative journalism takes place, not the BBC-Pravda).

I know he was out of order, La Redoute. But that concerns me less than the fact that he’s right.

The difference is in the moral fibre of the two men: one is motivated by a sense of decency, the other by his own pride.