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To: MichaelCorleone

Lee Kuan Yew was an amazing leader who transformed Singapore from a third world to a first world economy in a few decades.

A bit of historical inaccuracy in the piece. Singapore did not voluntarily leave the federation with Malaysia. Malaysia withdrew because of issues with their Muslim population. At that point, Singapore felt the need to build a military and consulted with Israel to do sol


3 posted on 04/21/2016 5:22:30 AM PDT by vekzen
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To: vekzen

“A bit of historical inaccuracy in the piece. Singapore did not voluntarily leave the federation with Malaysia. Malaysia withdrew because of issues with their Muslim population. “

Malaysia expelled them from the federation.


4 posted on 04/21/2016 5:56:09 AM PDT by TexasGator
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