Your chihuahua must be pretty smart. You meet me at a place of your choosing and I’ll show you ineffectual.

Min Weber, you seem to suggest that we of the BP are saying that removing Gaddafi from power is a task for Malta alone.

Wrong.

Let me spell it out for you: CO-A-LI-TION.

In any case, you are also wrong in your geostrategic assessment. I won’t bother answering. Too busy. Sorry.

Why? Does the sincerity or veracity of what I write depend on whether I sign off with my real name? I predicted the outcome of the Libyan war play by play, and all the while I hid my real identity. Does that change anything? Believe me, I wasn’t living under a bridge I’d give you my real name, but I don’t want my enemies to see me bleeding. And then sue me for libel.

The world leaders who throw most bullshit around, more like it.

Every so often some wise guy (not ‘wajz’) makes some nonsense statement, after years of research, just to justify his sponsors and get from funding from universities and bodies (who do it as a tax deduction). Naturally the media, starving for material to fill their columns, quickly report it as if it were dogma. What a world! This guy must have a time-machine to be able to tell the language prehistoric man spoke – or maybe he has been watching too many re-runs of the Flintstones

If policy were determined on the grounds Baxxter is proposing – I can’t see him being tongue-in-cheek in this – then that would be a recipe for disaster.

La Redoute, I agree that Malta is in no position to stabilize the region. Likewise, it is in no position to do anything to remove Gaddafi from power. I therefore reiterate my position: ask the Bellicose Party (BP) – led by High-Powered Baxxter – to calm down. We are just too small. The whole project is already on the plane of folie de grandeur for the UK – just imagine teeny weeny Malta.

Yor/Malta, you might be right. But there are two dangers: (i) the State of Libya might degenerate into a failed State and (ii) if NATO / West troops intervene on the ground, that would lead to a surge in Al-Qaeda support. Both scenarios are extremely negative for Malta.

In view of these dangers, I think it is not wise to go down the path you, and others of the BP, are suggesting.

Baxxter Boy: the only reason why you should tell us who you are is because you started a blog. No more, no less.

It is in Malta’s national interest to get rid of Gaddafi. If only because he’s in cahoots with the worst specimens of Maltese “biznispersons”. Morality be damned.

Tautology is the enemy of clarity, not its friend.

What is happening in Libya is also what is happening outside Libya.

Malta is in no position to stabilise the region.

Morality is not a luxury. It is a necessity, even if you don’t take the long view.