The revision of Maltese history currently under way at the Partit Laburista headquarters will now have it as: Joseph Muscat idahhal lil Malta fl-Ewropa wara li jirbah ir-referendum tal-2011.

Sorry. Did my comment sound so serious?

Pif Paf is not effective with Gaddafi.
With Gaddafi, what we need is a very targeted air Raid.

Had he had his way, today we would be flying the Union flag. When that eluded him, he did a 180 degree turn and went for independence – his way.

When the Nationalist government achieved independence combined with an economic agreement, Mintoff got mad and proclaimed independence as a fake (taparsi).

When he gained power in 1971 he wanted more moolah from the Brits and they said nay, nay. Whether they were right or wrong is another matter altogether.

He took the opportunity not to renew the defence and economic pact with Britain when it EXPIRED in 1979 and called it ‘Jum il-helsien’. Mintoff did NOT throw the Brits out, they left as they had planned well before 1979.

Britain’s diplomacy fell short of stating that it had freed itself (helset) from Mintoff and hence Malta. It was Britain freedom not the other way round.

Instead Mintoff went to China, North Korea and many other Communist countries, cap in hand begging here and there. Here is the man who many say that he eradicated poverty in Malta taking up the role of one himself.

He reddened our faces wherever we went and Malta became known as Mintoff’s little island or Gaddafi’s satellite state. From a British lover, he became a British hater. Such was/is the stability of Mintoff’s mind.

I wonder how many elections (to this day) Gaddafi financed for the Labour Party. Blood money, for sure.

His successors were/are just as bad or worse. Mintoff was not ‘good for the first few years’. Mintoff had a pre-conceived agenda and executed it abetted by ignorance, violence, fraud worthy only of a two bit dictator, who, “jigi jitnejjek mill Kostituzzjoni” (his words not mine) whenever it suited him. Some leader.

Mintoff’s successors cannot even make their minds up, or maybe in hindsight only.

Another sorry specimen of a PL/MLP supporting cockroach is bleating victory; Baygon please.

Sorry, I meant “blog commenter”. France’s foreign minister seemed to be unaware of the position Sarkosy took. That’s Germany’s foreign minister reporting. I hope you find him credible.

I’m sure there are junior officers who had some academic thesis on the theoretical upheavals and overtaking of Libya.

Unlike many people here, for example, I believe that Mintoff was good for Malta in his first few years. But then the madness took over.

They hail in vain.

http://www.rferl.org/content/commentary_qaddafi_could_resume_wmd_program/2340596.html

If Libya’s Qaddafi Hangs On…

After “cleansing Libya” of the “rats, cockroaches, and drug addicts” he says have risen against him, will Muammar Qaddafi turn his attention to the foreign countries he believes fueled the rebellion against him?

There’s no doubt that, on this issue, the Nationalist party are on the wrong side of history.

As I said before, the inaction has nothing to do with the inability or difficulty of doing it. There is no such limitation and it would indeed be very easy to defeat Gaddafi’s militarily. Even a single US aircraft carrier could overwhelm Gaddafi’s airforce and shortly after also his ground forces (his navy isn’t even worth mentioning).

What is lacking is just the will to do anything. They seem more concerned with being called names in the media and giving ammunition for anti-western rhetoric than with the consequences of inaction.