The Impossible Colonel

Colonel Qaddafi of Libya is an inescapable leitmotiv in this column, a recurring decimal, a refrain. He has inordinate ambitions of his own and is willing to serve the ambitions of the Soviet leadership as well, whether only to the extent that they serve his own, or beyond, is difficult to say. He helps terrorists all over the world and is not too fussy about their ideology.

But just recently, the impossible Colonel has had a comeuppance of a kind, at the hands of another political leader about whose sanity doubts have at times been expressed: Dom Mintoff of tiny Malta. Let us look at what happened between the two, and speculate a little about the future.

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Colonel Qaddafi of Libya is an inescapable leitmotiv in this column, a recurring decimal, a refrain. He has inordinate ambitions of his own and is willing to serve the ambitions of the Soviet leadership as well, whether only to the extent that they serve his own, or beyond, is difficult to say. He helps terrorists all over the world and is not too fussy about their ideology.

But just recently, the impossible Colonel has had a comeuppance of a kind, at the hands of another political leader about whose sanity doubts have at times been expressed: Dom Mintoff of tiny Malta. Let us look at what happened between the two, and speculate a little about the future.