Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s Founding Father, Dies at 91

Wall Street Journal ^ | Mar 22, 2015 | CHUN HAN WONG

[Larry Lucido]

RIP.

That said, Pink Floyd will memorialize him in song. “Lee Kuan, Yew Cwazy Diamond!”

[Salvey]

His columns in Forbes were excellent.

[ifinnegan]

Bout time.

I remember seeing him on TV once and it took awhile to realize it was Lee Kuan Yew and not some old Englsh guy.

[marktwain]

Singapore prospered under his rein. He did much to make the rule of law a habit, I have been told.

[Zhang Fei]

RIP. He was perhaps the closest thing to a Confucian benevolent emperor; most tyrants are just tyrants, which is why in general power should never be centralized in one person.

Emperors, especially founding ones, slaughter large numbers of people while ascending the throne. Lee was more a scholar bureaucrat, who graduated the equivalent of summa cum laude with a double major from Cambridge University, then set about building a nation state out of a mishmash of nationalities. Singapore really lucked out.

[chajin]

Singapore lucked out.

I was going to click on the thumb and then I realized I had left Facebook :-)

[Gluteus Maximus]

May he rest in peace. He was truly one of the greatest leaders in history, IMHO. He showed the way for Confucian societies to embrace Western technologies and free market economics while remaining essentially Confucian. He is the inspiration for Shangai and the transformation of China with all of its 1.3 billion people. His historical importance cannot be overstated.