Frustration??
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looking at the current impasse between singapore and malaysia...
anyone else have a similar sense of frustration??
i mean.... hell.... we try to reason with them... but they are unreasonable...
We try to come to a compromise with them... but they want us to simply hand over everything they want....
We tell them the importance of bilateral treaty and the importance to be responsible for the sake of both nations... but they try to act like monkeys...
On the one hand.... we try to go by the diplomatic and legal way of resolving the problem... amicably...
While at the same time... we dont want to resolved our problems through force of arms... but then... they are not giving us much options left...
They continue to intrude into PB and has become more and more unreasonable by the days...
I fear... that the problem between the 2 nations might have reach a point where war is fast becoming a reality...
Singapore is probably still holding onto our sanity as we wait for malaysia's move on water and PB issue...
BUT... if malaysia should decide on the last minute not to sign the mutual special agreedment to bring PB to the ICJ and/or starts to take unilateral position on the issue of water...
I fear... war preparations would begin in earnest...
HOwever... i believe that there is one more avenue that singapore can resolve the current impasse... we should bring our mutual conflict to the UN or the ASEAN meet...
we could expose the lies of malaysia to the whole region if not throughout the world using mass media, diplomatic channel and force them to abide by the international norms of diplomacy...
even if malaysia refuse to bring the matter to the regional grouping or the UN... singapore must at least present its side of the story... inform our friends and neighbours what has happened.... then perhaps seek their assistance to force malaysia through diplomatic, economic or even millitary pressure... ( a few hundred thoudsand soldier from TNI and Thai army place around malaysian border would work wonders...
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OR.. in the event that diplomatic pressure failed... we should gathered around us... our friends, allies and neighbours to support us in times of grave conflict... -
i believe that the time has come where we should start gathering our friends around us...
we should try to make malaysia's friends .. our friends...
even if we cannot get them to be on our side... we must at least attempt to get them to be neutral to the conflict...
first will be our neighbours... Indonesia, thailand, phillipine are the 3 key members we should focus on...
next will be the regional and global superpowers... namely, USA, Japan, India, PRC, ROC, Australia, Pakistan, Russia, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada...
lastly, the UN, OIC and EC
we must get them to help us to "talk" to malaysia... we must try all means to resolve the problem peacefully...
We should only resort to war... when all diplomatic channel fails...
Alternatively... singapore can also do a tit for tat...
they turn off our water pipe... we close the border and send all malaysian balik kampong...turning off the money pipe...
they continue to intrude into PB... we start stockpiling war materials...
They break the separation agreedment... we Break the peace.... -
sigh... one thing is singapore is so small with little resources.. malaysia is so big..Originally posted by tripwire:i believe that the time has come where we should start gathering our friends around us...
we should try to make malaysia's friends .. our friends...
even if we cannot get them to be on our side... we must at least attempt to get them to be neutral to the conflict...
first will be our neighbours... Indonesia, thailand, phillipine are the 3 key members we should focus on...
next will be the regional and global superpowers... namely, USA, Japan, India, PRC, ROC, Australia, Pakistan, Russia, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada...
lastly, the UN, OIC and EC
we must get them to help us to "talk" to malaysia... we must try all means to resolve the problem peacefully...
We should only resort to war... when all diplomatic channel fails...
Alternatively... singapore can also do a tit for tat...
they turn off our water pipe... we close the border and send all malaysian balik kampong...turning off the money pipe...
they continue to intrude into PB... we start stockpiling war materials...
They break the separation agreedment... we Break the peace....
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i don't know if anyone else has noticed, but this issue is only being INTENSELY reported by the press in Sg AND M'sia... surprise surprise...
None of the major news agencies are showing much concern... well, they pay lips service to whats going on, but i hardly think that anybody takes this too seriously...
a few reasons really... primarily cos everyone's attention is currently on N. Korea and the Mid-East.
SE Asia is peripheral at the moment... yes, war on terrorism, blah blah blah... lets bomb iraq... sigh...
also, NOBODY believes that the two countries will actually come to blows...
not THAT easy to just find an opportunity and have it out with the suckers... -
i am sick n tired of the news liao....
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Originally posted by tripwire:i believe that the time has come where we should start gathering our friends around us...
we should try to make malaysia's friends .. our friends...
even if we cannot get them to be on our side... we must at least attempt to get them to be neutral to the conflict...
first will be our neighbours... Indonesia, thailand, phillipine are the 3 key members we should focus on...
next will be the regional and global superpowers... namely, USA, Japan, India, PRC, ROC, Australia, Pakistan, Russia, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Canada...
lastly, the UN, OIC and EC
we must get them to help us to "talk" to malaysia... we must try all means to resolve the problem peacefully...
We should only resort to war... when all diplomatic channel fails...
Alternatively... singapore can also do a tit for tat...
they turn off our water pipe... we close the border and send all malaysian balik kampong...turning off the money pipe...
they continue to intrude into PB... we start stockpiling war materials...
They break the separation agreedment... we Break the peace....
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i feel the same way
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Frustration - is how the US feel when dealing with North Korea and Iraq.
North Korea has Kim IL Jung and Iraq has Sadam Hussein, both are experts in the field of political deceit and manouvre.
Both leaders are stubbornly holding out and wearing down the patience of the US and the UN, in a "cat and mouse" game of hiding their Weapons of Mass Destruction.
North Korea Kim is an unpredictable and psychotic leader, who ordered the bombing incident in Myanmar that killed seven South Korean Ministers, when they made a State Visit there.
Iraq's Sadam is similarly unpredictable and shows no qualms even in the execution of both his sons-in-law, by deceiving them to return home from illegal flight, only to have murdered by his elder son.
Sadam has been documented to have ordered the killing of Iraqi Citizens of Kurdish ethnicity, by using toxic gas that killed over five thousand people in one single town alone.
He has also been documented to have authorised the use of mustard gas against the Iranian army, to break the impasse during their "ten year war".
Just like his North Korean counter part, Sadam is also very good at the game of deception.
Both have continued to spend billions on exotic weapons, as well as on grandiose palaces and monuments, while their citizens suffered through another year of winter.
The US remain helpless and frustrated, as the UN efforts to locate the Weapons of Mass Destruction continue to prove inconclusive the existence of the Weapons of Mass Destructions.
Malaysia's behaviour can be compared to that of North Koreas's Kim, as both are as "hare brained" as one from the other.. -
err........ i am not frustrated ........... i feel more and more excited and eager to kick the botak and his MAD boss ass .....
I LOVE MY COUNTRY .... SINGAPORE FOREVER !!!
JUST LIKE A TREE STANDING BY THE WATER SIDE ......
WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED ........