Oh P.S. I WANT Maltese soldiers to die in a conflict. Because that’s when a nation is born.

Id-doting parent syndrome. Clifton ara taqa’. Klaydon ara tixraq. Kleavon ilbes beritta ghax tiehu cmajra. U issa Lawrence ara ddahhalna fi gwerra li ma jmurx Jake tieghi imut jew iwegga’.

We take wimpiness to levels never before explored. When a tiny Maltese detachment boarded a Dutch frigate on Operation Atalanta, the articles in the Times, complete with teary kiddies and huggies from the girlfriend, made it look as if they were stepping straight into Helmand.

[Daphne – Why have soldiers if you want them to avoid conflict? EVERYBODY values their safety. But not all are lucky enough to be able to rely on others to guarantee it. As for tourism: your thinking is short-termist and short-sighted.]

Amazing how heroes turn to hockey players hiding their balls behind a neutrality jock-strap in a matter of hours.

Saif Gaddafi: “It will be very easy to replace Italy with China or Russia,”

One doesn’t have to wonder too long. He mentioned those two because they are the only two countries which oppose the no-fly zone over Libya.

Can one imagine if this were to materialize? Having China or Russia next door?

Now, who’s for neutrality as in neutralized?

I can understand Saif’s wrath at Italy since it decided (and rightly so) to suspend the multi-billion euro agreement with Libya, but now it is clear as day that the Gaddafi clan is not only to be isolated but preferably totally eliminated one way or another.

Malta stands to lose much more than Libya’s friendship but it must also act with some restraint so as not to be included with Italy in any retaliatory actions by the Gaddafis – if, heaven forbid they prevail.

On surface the words of our government seem to lack the sting, but there is a Maltese saying which is somewhat hard to translate and still makes sense: ‘Il-borma min isawwara jkun jaf x’fiha’. We will do more harm to ourselves if we shoot our mouth before we engage our brains especially when lacking the necessary information about what is happening behind the scenes.

By supplying arms and embedded training teams to the rebels. That’s the best way. With perhaps some air support.

You have your facts oh so totally wrong, Min Weber. And your logic is even worse.

Britain and France put more into the colonies than they took out. Check the figures. So that argument fails.

[Daphne – Well, if you look at Malta you can see that for a fact. Mur arana, kemm konna se naslu bil-Malti, biss biss. And one of the reasons we are able to succeed even now at the things we do is because all the structures of government and administration were put in place so solidly that they even survived the years of depredation 1971 to 1987.]

Then you equate the Balkans and Libya. They are two different worlds. Even I, war-hungry as I am, think it was wrong to attack Serbia. Morally wrong and politically wrong. Because we did nothing but help out a bunch of Albanian terrorists who carved their own ethnically cleansed territory out of Serbia.

Crimes against humanity are just a palaver. Milosevic never threatened Europe or the world. Gaddafi did, for 42 years. The level of nastiness of the man is incomparable. Not every war is the same, even though the final result is dead individuals.

Then you raise the usual fantasy of being bombarded. This time by Libya. So you’re saying that our only defence against that eventuality these last 42 years has been our fawning servility to Gaddafi. In lieu of NATO membership, presumably.

I don’t cherish our neutrality. I despise it. It has turned a once brave nation into a country of bead-clutching duplicitous cowards.

“Let us support the Prime Minister”? Let us not. He looks incredibly ridiculous right now.

X’int antipatiku, wonka.

Not that you deserve any help, but here, this is one take by one ‘idiot’ – http://www.infowars.com/piers-corbyn-massive-japan-earthquake-tsunami-were-triggered-by-solar-action/

Don’t come back to me. Evaluate the evidence and throw yourself off a cliff if you will.

Don’t be so sure that it is only “half the House (that) considers the (neutrality) law to be relevant and/or good.” There were many Nationalists back in the eighties who had no need of a gun to be put to their head to agree to insert the neutrality clause in the constitution.

It appears that there are still some around who find the clause a useful prop for their spinelessness.

Solving the plight of the Palestinians?

It was the Arab countries themselves that were involved in one of the worst massacres of Palestinians i.e. September 1970 – thousands killed by Jordanian troops with the complacent agreement and go-ahead of Nasser.

This is just to illustrate to what extent the World’s politicians can go to try an again political and economical advantage. If there is one thing for certain in world politics is that there is no loyalty.