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June 1st, 2004


Singaporeans are the most pragmatic people on earth, and they don’t care a whit about political correctness. Living as they do in a Confucian city-state, Singapore’s leaders are free to speak their minds on certain subjects, without worry about the niceties of pandering to the sensitivities of sundry groups. Singapore is conscious that it has no time or spare resources to waste on wishful thinking about matters vital to its survival.

Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong of Singapore paid Americans the compliment of speaking bluntly, as a friend, about the realities of the War on Terror, in a speech last month, before the Council on Foreign Relations. P.M. Goh’s bracing words are carefully-chosen, and sometimes quite eloquent. Americans, who actually care about winning the War on Terror more than simply winning the next election, would do well to read the entire transcript.

P.M. Goh acknowledges that we are locked in a war for our survival, against a hostile ideology which seeks our destruction. The War on Terror is shaping our era just as surely as the Cold War shaped the previous. This time, the enemy is even more formidable, in some ways:

The communists fought to live, whereas the jihadi terrorists fight to die and live in the next world.

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