Veru … ahjar ktibt “midalja b’San Gorg” minflok “ta San Gorg”

Franco was not exactly neutral in WWII; he sent a Spanish army division (Blue Division) as cannon fodder to the Russian front in support of the Wehrmacht. What the Russians did not kill, the Russian winter did.

Il-midalja mhix ta San Gorg imma tar-Re Gorg.

I think you misunderstand Reporter. As I see it, he’s saying that Chamberlain wanted to avoid war at all costs, and wanted to keep military expenditure to a minimum, while Franco strengthened the armed forces but refused to be drawn into the Second World War. I disagree with his assessment of Chamberlain, but I don’t think Reporter’s comment betrays any far-right sentiment – just the usual Maltese household factoids (like IRA, Falklands, Chamberlain, Thatcher, the war in Algeria, the works).

[Daphne – Reporter has been popping in here repeatedly to justify the prime minister’s stance and Maltese neutrality. It gets a little bit tiring because he begins his arguments from the standpoint that the prime minister/Nationalist Party is always right. If you start off like that, your logic is invariably going to be faulty. I did not mean ‘far right’ in the context of the overall political spectrum, but far right within the PN, the spiritual descendants of the Mussolini/Italian lovers of the mid-20th century. They are clearly distinct from more recent arrivals like myself, and it takes something like this to show up the very obvious division in attitude and mindset.]

Then Malta should have been in the first wave of Operation Odyssey Dawn, since we’ve been screwed by Gaddafi at least since 1971.

I understand, appreciate and admire the disciplined behaviour of the USA. That was how much they could give…… in return for the disco and the Lockerbie killings of its soldiers.

The US is still contributing but not in a leading role.

May I remind you that the US did not enter into the WW II fray before it was attacked at Pearl Harbor, and did not enter WW I until the Lusitania was sunk by a German torpedo.

It’s quite safe for you when you throw stones at others from other people’s homes.

At least twelve were fired. And the Royal Navy is short of Tomahawks. The total arsenal is 64, and they don’t come cheap. The Triumph-class submarine can only carry 20 missiles so even the British wanted to unleash hellfire on Libya, they’d be limited by practical considerations. Behold the importance of technical details in deciding policy.

We have not lost our soul ion this case; we have simply sold it to the devil.

[Daphne – Well, John, the United States launched 190 Tomahawk missiles and ‘stepped back’. The UK launched seven (or was it nine?) and carries on. Same difference.]

Ahna wkoll fuq il-bandiera Maltija ghandna salib … il-midalja ta San Gorg li nghatat ghall-qlubija tal-Maltin.

Imbaghad tigi dil-klassi dominanti ta’ issa li minhabba interpretazzjoni patetika tan-newtralita titradixxi l-kuragg tal-kavallieri (gejjin mill-krucjati wkoll) w il-qlubija ta missirijietna li rebhulna l-George Cross.

Gonzi u Joseph Muscat ..ISTHU!