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.

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.

Food for thought.

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