Khaled Nordin: Lee Kuan Yew is better than Tun Mahathir
Monday, October 30th, 2006 | 10:47 pm @ SK
In Malaysia, under any usual circumstances, when things went wrong, things like this would have been expected. But frankly speaking, I never thougt that it has gone this far.
Well, guess what? Entrepreneurial and Co-operative Development Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin described former prime minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad’s criticism of the Government as worse than that by Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew.
"If Dr Mahathir had wanted what he had been doing to be continued, he could have done what Lee Kuan Yew did, but he himself said that he wanted to retire and that he had been in politics for too long."
Let me guess, what’s the minister is trying to say? Telling people that Tun who has contributed towards this country and retired after 22 years of service cannot or in another word, ineligible to criticize the current administration of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi?
Having said so, does that mean a retiree or a plain civilian who is out of power doesn’t have the right to swing the axe on the Government?
Thumbs up for you, Minister!
October 31st, 2006 at 1:17 am
I do not know much about Malaysian politics nor the background of many politicians, I am neither a supporter of TDM nor the current administration.
However, consider this story from a classic Chinese fable:
A clam gets attacked by a flamingo that wants to eat it, the clam retaliates by clamping the Flamingo’s beak, but the flamingo won’t budge and still clings on to the meat of the clam, in the end, a fisherman passes by and saw both clam and flamingo in a deadlock situation, and takes both of them home easily while they are vulnerable.
We have a clam-flamingo fight in this nation right now, but fortunately the fisherman is nowhere to be seen yet. Now, it seems that we are inviting the fisherman to take all?
Even from where I sit right now, I think I can hear the last laugh from Oxley Road, Singapore.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:32 am
[…] When a Malaysia’s cabinet minister conveniently giving credit to our neighbourhood’s Lee Kuan Yew, reader jaywalker_82 left a comment regarding the issue on hand, which I believe truly reflects the reality of the feud between former premier Tun Mahathir Mohamad and Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. I do not know much about Malaysian politics nor the background of many politicians, I am neither a supporter of TDM nor the current administration. […]
November 2nd, 2006 at 2:39 am
catch him, he’s singaporean, not patriotic to malaysia