Malaysians – forget about Wikileaks
Wikileaks’s revelation about how Singaporean leaders view PM Najib is only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Simply put, you can’t immediately erase conditioned thinking quickly. Malaysian leaders in general, and not just PM Najib alone, are regarded as ‘deficient’ in many aspects. So, as BG Yeo, Singapore’s foreign minister said – let’s not take this out of context. Perhaps, this general patronizing impression on Malaysia’s leaders is making its rounds as cocktail circuit bitchy talks only.
Our diplomats and the well-heeled are making the same bitchy remarks about the PM and his wife. So what is new?
I shall leave out some of the more damaging remarks Singapore leaders placed on PM Najib. My source is not Wikileaks but from some source that is well connected to Singapore leaders themselves on a first hand basis. It’s better than Wikileaks.
Singapore’s rather condescending assessment on PM Najib must have accentuated at the time about the way Malaysia handles the issue of KTM land and related matters some time ago. Earlier on of course, the way we handle Batu Puteh more or less confirmed Singapore’s belief that Malaysian leaders from the Information Minster to the 3rd class honors AG are mentally deficient.
But at this moment, the story of the hour is, Malaysians are more interested in accepting as true, what Wikileaks reported on Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar Ibrahim did it, but did it because he was entrapped. If there is any possible means at damaging control, it lies in the spin that can be manufactured around the term ‘entrapment’.
Anwar Ibrahim and his people will of course take the revelations as lies and conspiracies and allegations which are not true. Well, if they say what Wikileaks say about Anwar is not true, THEN they will also have to say the assessment on Najib is also not true. PKR people can’t say that said about Anwar isn’t true but then insist what Wikileaks said about Najib is true, can they?
But Anwar’s people can also say, if what Wikileaks said about Najib is not true, THEN, what it said about Anwar is also not true. Wikileaks’s revelations about the two leaders cancel each other out then.
But I think, PM Najib’s worries about being assessed unfavorably cannot be as disquieting as having him being more worried about whether his NEM and his economic initiatives will succeed. If he isn’t focused there, his NEM could easily turn out to be his NAM (American GIs slang for Vietnam). This could be his Waterloo.
