The birth of any new era requires a midwife with an exceptional grasp of the Malay politics, the imagination to conduct negotiations with a tough enemy, and the blessed virtue of silence. This is Najib’s dilemma
A second term in office is dangerous if there is no third term. It is like entering a casino with plastic money. A prime minister or president has no personal stake in the game. There is of course the duty towards good governance, and national interest, but that fire which stokes a leader’s instincts has become ash. Politics is a human business, and human beings need the zeal inspired by ambition. Only saints are content with moral purpose alone, and saints do not win elections.upon Barack Obama, and the indifference that is driving his signature decisions into disrepair. Obama has not become arrogant; he was arrogant to start with. He is probably just bored. His great battles were over with his re-election, and he does not quite know how to handle the meandering journey through a downward swamp. A quagmire oozing with the pride of victory, and heavy with the drudge of complacency, is an invitation to mistakes, errors of judgement, and indifference to consequence.
It is quite normal for anyone to ask this question: Where are we going and where is Najib taking us? Since Najib took over the reins of government in 2009, we are neither here nor there. Most people are baffled because Najib seems disconnected from reality while the country is facing innumerable critical problems which require urgent attention.
Even as these problems are left unattended, more problems are being added. Najib’s words have no meaning whatsoever as his cabinet ministers have been acting to dismantle what he had promised the people before he was given the mandate to run the country.Ku Nan drinking toddy in Sentul Naked vs nude on poverty Advice is likely to ignore Change is a mist which floats through events, often obscured by the daily cloudburst of facts. It is noticed least by those it affects most. Tengku Adnan Tengku Manso have a sharper eye than they are given credit for, but they can … Read more
Najib wearied by the complicated demands of an often fruitless domestic agenda, sought a place in the books through an audacious gamble in petty and hollow sloganeering.. Najib believed that goodwill was good enough.
It never is. conceived in the conviction that Muslims and Non–Muslims cannot co-operate as equals. That epic delusion slips repeatedly into its equations with Malay politics. Najib began his second term dramatically, with a gesture to
Government involvement in religion, to him, should also be on a minimum scale. Religion was a faith adhered to by individuals and that should be about all there was to it. He did not encourage the religious department to expand its jurisdiction whereby it could pose a threat to national harmony.
But unfortunately, at present, things seem to have gone out of hand. Ministers contradict what the Prime Minister had promised. Voices of disharmony were allowed free reign. Acts that harm the sensitivities of those not of the Muslim faith are on the rise.
And yet Najib champions 1Malaysia. It was there all along but subsequent leaders, especially those from UMNO Baru, had dismantled that by allowing anti-national elements from the cabinet itself to “flourish” uncontrollably.
Najib told the Sabah and Sarawak people of the freedom in practising their religion and then a ban was imposed on their newsletter. Sarawak and Sabah together with Malaya then had formed Malaysia, and there was no need to tell them that they are part of Malaysia. They definitely were and are part and parcel of Malaysia.
One very important factor was that Tun Razak walked the talk. The Malay paper Utusan Melayu with national calibre editors like Yusof Ishak (later President of Singapore) and Said Zahari had been vocal in fighting for the truth and even when it was taken over by UMNO, it still remained as a national paper that was very much respected.
But once UMNO Baru led by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad took over the country, Utusan has become the party’s organ and has been allowed to become a national trash. The TV channels have also become the mouthpiece of the party. They have miserably failed to play a positive role in fostering national unity.
Every single effort should be coordinated like during Tun Razak’s time to achieve the national goal of equality, prosperity and happiness for all. Pray! Tell us! Are you, Najib, taking us towards disaster!
Government involvement in religion, to him, should also be on a minimum scale. Religion was a faith adhered to by individuals and that should be about all there was to it. He did not encourage the religious department to expand its jurisdiction whereby it could pose a threat to national harmony.
But unfortunately, at present, things seem to have gone out of hand. Ministers contradict what the Prime Minister had promised. Voices of disharmony were allowed free reign. Acts that harm the sensitivities of those not of the Muslim faith are on the rise.
And yet Najib champions 1Malaysia. It was there all along but subsequent leaders, especially those from UMNO Baru, had dismantled that by allowing anti-national elements from the cabinet itself to “flourish” uncontrollably.
Najib told the Sabah and Sarawak people of the freedom in practising their religion and then a ban was imposed on their newsletter. Sarawak and Sabah together with Malaya then had formed Malaysia, and there was no need to tell them that they are part of Malaysia. They definitely were and are part and parcel of Malaysia.
One very important factor was that Tun Razak walked the talk. The Malay paper Utusan Melayu with national calibre editors like Yusof Ishak (later President of Singapore) and Said Zahari had been vocal in fighting for the truth and even when it was taken over by UMNO, it still remained as a national paper that was very much respected.
But once UMNO Baru led by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad took over the country, Utusan has become the party’s organ and has been allowed to become a national trash. The TV channels have also become the mouthpiece of the party. They have miserably failed to play a positive role in fostering national unity.
Every single effort should be coordinated like during Tun Razak’s time to achieve the national goal of equality, prosperity and happiness for all. Pray! Tell us! Are you, Najib, taking us towards disaster!
Over the last four decades, Iran has become to America what Pakistan is to India. Obama is in his Nixon moment. Richard Nixon recognized that history would be kinder to him than journalism if he could reverse the absurdity of America’s stagnant attitude towards Maoist China. His China manoeuvre shifted the balance of economic and strategic power in ways neither Nixon nor Mao could have foreseen when they cracked the glacier in 1970.
Obama wants an equally transformative coup in America’s relations with Iran, a regional power that is far more durable than its detractors thought. If there is a deal and that deal survives the acid attacks inevitable along the long road ahead, the strategic map of Asia will be altered beyond recognition, and in ways that no one has yet begun to articulate. From Delhi’s perspective, America’s spatial dependence on Pakistan will weaken, disturbing a basic foundation of the America-Pakistan relationship. Iran will also be a more reliable partner than Pakistan in the continuing confrontation against militias of the Sunni Jihad, who believe that after defeating the Soviet Union in Afghanistan they have now delivered a death blow to the mighty Americans. They want to turn Afghanistan and Pakistan into the epicentre of an offensive against India, and China, which has absorbed Muslim Sinkiang into its territory. 2014, when most American troops return home, is not an end but only another beginning.
But Obama has a problem: every Nixon needs a Henry Kissinger. The birth of any new era requires a midwife with an exceptional grasp of the world order, the imagination to conduct negotiations with a tough enemy, and the blessed virtue of silence. This is Obama ’s dilemma, now that the Pandora’s Box has been pried open, it will be very difficult to put a lid on the scandal. By challenging public opinion, Rosmah may have hammered the last nail into Najib’s coffin.The birth of any new era requires a midwife with an exceptional grasp of the Malay politics, the imagination to conduct negotiations with a tough enemy, and the blessed virtue of silence. This is Najib’s dilemma Oversized diamond rings, Birkin bags and fawning GLCs Let us talk basics first. Just look at the way our leaders and their spouses dress to kill in their routine public appearances and doing-good public events. We are not saying that leaders must go around in tattered jeans and slippers. No. But when over-sized diamond rings, … Read more
