So is ours a toy army, or what?

Our prime minister has said that Malta “does not have the resources” in terms of weapons or soldiers to contribute to a UN effort in Libya, but that he is happy to have Malta work as a liaison point because we are “the EU member state that Libya trusts most”.

What tosh. Which Libya trusts Malta most – the one whose representatives are holed up in the embassy in Balzan, or the other one whose representatives have hunkered down at a hastily improvised alternative embassy in Ta’ Xbiex?

In any case, what exactly is his point here, and what does he have in mind?

What is the Maltese army busy doing, that it can’t “contribute resources”? It’s not a toy army. It’s supposed to be a real army. It doesn’t get much opportunity to serve its purpose, so it officers and men should welcome with open arms the first chance they get to actually do what they were trained to do.