You’re Your Own Worst Enemy
A LITTLE TAFFER’S ROOM
I couldn’t recall who first said “You’re your own worst enemy.” but from my understanding, it was originated from “Man is his own worst enemy” spoken by the Roman senator and philosopher Cicero. The quote is what I’ve been summarizing about in regards of my observations of PKR, it’s top two leaders and apart from that KITA’s Zaid Ibrahim.
Similarly, there are many fellow colleagues who view the famous Allies General George Patton’s ego as his own worst enemy. One of them who famously alluded that was his close friend, Omar Bradley. It is the ego of man that gets the best out of him and it’s a tough thing to defeat unless it can be kicked out of a man’s system.
I’ve been reading rants and tweets from a friend of mine, KITA’s former CEC-member who was unceremoniously dismissed with the other members of the committee. I can dig up the whole list of tweets in regards to what he said, if wished. Previously when Zaid said KITA will not contest in the elections and instead show unconditional support, I was certain that Zaid made several big mistakes while he’s still at PKR. I did remarked previously that you need to understand the relationship between Anwar Ibrahiim and Azmin Ali before you can attempt to take on them. One friend of mine told me of Zaid being cautioned of that relationship during the Permatang Pauh by-election campaign. But having been in the party for less than year, many viewed his actions in the party as impatient and barging through.
When he announced today that instead of dissolving the party and have KITA contesting in seats in several states, a friend of mine opined of him as a flip-flopper. Easy enough to say. But this doesn’t mean that I am anti-Mr.A or anti-Mr.B or something.
Which now brings back to Anwar. Anwar’s main weakness is also about the ego getting the best of him. At times, he claims to have this and that, he can turn around things in Putrajaya. There’s an acknowledgement that the need to win seats in Sabah and Sarawak to gain control of the government. But then the sentiment and mindset of Sabah and Sarawak is not the same as in Peninsular. Their’s as they put it as their own independent sub-camp. If the big-three from peninsular wants the lion’s share of seats in Sabah and Sarawak, it would be very difficult to accomplish the objective. Unless, they make partners and friends with the local-based parties like SNAP, STAR and so forth.
