kev is just a rebel without a cause.

Ironically, soon after the interview Sky News broke for ads. Guess what? There was an MTA add promoting Malta as “Truly Mediterranean”.

I’m not surprised that the MTA is filling in for the Maltese High Commission in London and is issuing statements on behalf of the Maltese government. Do they really think they can salvage the tourism industry by avoiding participating in the enforcement of the UN Resolution?

How can any Government Minister or diplomat answer a question about whether he supports a regime that kills its own people with an “I wouldn’t say so”? FFS.

In a normal country, he would have to resign. This was the first time in decades that a Maltese foreign minister had the opportunity to say something on the world stage. I doubt enough people in Malta appreciate how badly he has damaged our international standing and reputation.

Does he even have a communications specialist to advise him on how to answer journalists’ questions? He is lucky the Sky News journalist wasn’t more probing.

Is this the PN we fought for in the 1980s? Where is our pride and our integrity? Where is our sense of doing what has to be done for the sake of justice and what is right, even if it means making sacrifices to do so?

I am ashamed to say I am Maltese. We are not a nation without balls, dear Prime Minister, so please do not speak as though we are.

I am not even bothering to look at what the Labour leader is saying, or not saying.

Teo, the problem is that the Labour Party has worst pictures and they are even worse fence-sitters than the PN.

Unfortunately, our foreign affairs dealings are really well below zero. Most probably, this is due to the generation of youngsters brought up under the lackey, bowl-begging Mintoff time.

“No real experts.”

In what? Geopolitics and defence issues? Then we stop the charade and hand back our independence, because we lack the building blocks of government.

[Daphne – Why would they have been? And why ‘our’ ships and planes in particular and not everyone else’s?]

Maltese nationals were heroes and for our size we did our part (although some believe we had no option). We could have left our planes/boats here, but we didn’t. These were not on autopilot…they were manned by our nationals.

[Daphne – Look, let’s be realistic. That wasn’t a war effort. It was a paid rescue effort. And ‘we’ didn’t do anything: commercial companies did. The work ‘we’ did was on the ground here in Malta, organising things and whizzing people through. Supremely well organised, yes, but in retrospect I’m beginning to think it was deliberately overhyped and blown out of proportion with an eye to butting out of doing anything else. And no, we didn’t have a choice. You can’t hide behind neutrality and refuse to use Malta as an evacuation point.]

Re: others willing to take risks. Even if we wanted to, we couldn’t. We have no fighter planes and no navy. No real experts (although some would like to believe otherwise)…yes, maybe cowardly we rode the wave, but did so safely. We will emerge unscathed!

[Daphne – Physically unscathed and with our reputation and credibility in tatters. Fabulous deal.]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Video-British-Forces-Are-In-Action-Over-Libya-Prime-Minister-David-Cameron-Confirms/Article/201103315955468?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15955468_Video%3A_British_Forces_Are_In_Action_Over_Libya%2C_Prime_Minister_David_Cameron_Confirms

We would needlessly be placing our people at risk if something goes terribly wrong (say in the exceptional case of bomb going off, for example) and what would we get in return for turning our country in a military base? Praise? Respect? Ahh, but that’s more important than the safety of our people!

I don’t see the benefit of taking risks here…Too tired to go on…

[Daphne – Lucky for you (and me) then that other countries are willing to take the risks that will ultimately benefit us, without asking us for anything in return. Oh and incidentally, here’s the prime minister, asking for help with a hypothetical refugee crisis – help from those countries whose coalition he refused to help in turn. ‘No, we won’t help you try to get rid of Gaddafi and avert a refugee crisis, but if you fail, and the refugee crisis ensues, then we expect you to help us deal with the fall-out.’ http://menamagazine.com/?p=3670 ]