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Lee Kuan Yew on Armed Forces:
These are realities we have to weigh when deploying anyone to a sensitive appointment in the SAF. We must never put the person in a situation where he may face a conflict of loyalties. I said in answer to a question some nearly two years ago that it is a difficult matter to put a Malay Muslim of deeply religious family background in charge of a machine-gun. We should never have to ask this of anyone. Some of you were disturbed by my frankness. But when I faced crises in the 1960s I could not afford to be wrong. Was this discrimination or was it common sense – a policy of prudence? … For nearly every job, a person’s race and religion are irrelevant. But in the security services, because of our context, we cannot ignore race and religion in deciding suitability. In the early days, many Malay Singaporeans were not called up for NS. When NS started in 1967, race relations were fragile and tenuous, after the riots of 1964 and separation in 1965. The government could not ignore race tensions, simply recruit all young Malays and Chinese and have them do military training side by side. Israeli instructors would have been involved in the training of Malay/Muslim servicemen at a time of Muslim-Israeli conflict in the Middle East. So we did not recruit every Malay male, unless we were confident his participation in NS would not be a problem. Even then there was no blanket ban against Malays in the SAF. We have progressed as circumstances have changed. By the 1980s, we were confident enough to offer SAF undergraduate awards to Malays.
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Somebody told me I write about Pakistan to gain followers! I should have a million followers if that was the case. Check my timeline and you will find I barely talk about that. Pakistan is not that important!
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For some reason, Pakistanis get really hurt when you call Pakistan a terror state. Try it!
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Pakistan Model:
Harbour terrorists and then export to the world and then take credit for encountering them to keep the world safe!
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The fastest way to lose your kids is to hand their upbringing over to schools and universities.
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Certain people aren’t great at innovation or creating! What they are good at is taking over. There were already many advanced civilizations like Ancient Rome, India, China, Egypt, Mesopotamia etc. What they did however was to take over the civilizations successfully or unsuccessfully! But in long term, even if they take over a country, they will still have to rely on civilization that are good at innovation and changing with times!
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There is a group of people who have misunderstood the book. They are called the “Moderates”!
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Lee Kuan Yew:
I do not believe democracy necessarily leads to development. I believe a country need to develop discipline more than democracy!
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Lee Kuan Yew:
The Activism comes not from discussing politics in your teenage years at university. You have to have a certain amount of experience in life to understand the difficulties people face, and then you become an activist!
Lee Kuan Yew on Political activism on University campuses! Specially relevant to what is happening in America!
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"You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it."
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