It’s not easy to assess the former prime minister's impact on Malaysia, but without a doubt it is huge.
Our indomitable two-time ex-prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad turned a hundred years old recently. Amazingly, even at a hundred, he’s out and about with more energy than I can muster on the best of days, even though I'm only as old as one of his children. I extend my heartiest congratulations to Tun. I hope he’s recovering well from the recent birthday exertions.
He has a big chip on his shoulder, one that made him focus more on his own paths and his own grievances and on pointing fingers at others – the British, the West in general, the non-Malays and basically anybody who isn’t in sync with his thinking and vision. Unfortunately such an ego robbed him of self-awareness and introspection, and the priceless ability to step back, listen, and make the occasional apology and compromise and move on to a better trajectory. Tun never backed down from a fight.
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