Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
The enduring lesson is war is a disaster. Whoever wins, tremendous loss of life, property - a set back for civilisation.
Lee, Kuan Yew. The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew. Prentice Hall, 1998.
Almost all economists believe that Harding had it totally wrong. WWII for example was one of the greatest increases in productivity in world history. The Civil War and the two world wars both were accompanied by many increases in industrial productivity. The losing side is usually totally devastated by war, and sometimes the winners are impoverished as with England and Russia in WWII. However, the North thrived in the Civil War and America did in WWII. Many economists say that war often impairs the economy of even a winning country in that the war expenditures generally are made at the expense of the civilian economy—infrastructure, public transportation, education, and in the decades following the war the lack of domestic investment in the war years reduces medium and long term growth.
The speech was addressed to those American imperialist forces that were supporting the war in the Philippines.
“Tragedies” was used as a euphemism for incidents of “war crimes” or atrocities committed by individuals or small groups contrary to the official policy of the military or the country. McCain had personally been the victim of those committed by the Vietnamese in the Vietnam War. He was not surprised when some American and Canadian soldiers were guilty of some of these in the Afghanistan War.
Lee Kuan Yew GCMG CH SPMJ, often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. As one of the founding members of the People's Action Party, Lee is recognised as the nation's founding father, credited with rapidly transitioning the country from a "developing third world country into a developed first world country within a single generation" under his leadership. Lee died of pneumonia on 23 March 2015, aged 91. In a week of national mourning, about 1.7 million Singaporean residents as well as world leaders paid tribute to him at his lying-in-state at Singapore's Parliament House and at community tribute sites around the country.
