k shanmugam, chan chun sing, gan kim yong, wong kan seng, raymond lim :

It is easy to argue with an obvious truth, but I will when it is half truth.

Each country has historical and current dynamics.

You mentioned something, but you forget something else.

Lanfang Republic was derived from the Hakka settlement mining. Kailimantan Sultanate introduced Hakka workers because they were cheaper, better and faster. Sound familiar?

The rest is history, which took over and began his republic.

Now, he presents the image of Lanfang so weak that no, it was not true that they were strong as Singapore and the Sultanate of around looking for their protection, why did it fall?

The reason is precisely because the ruling class remains in the family Hakka. Sound familiar?

Well, unlike you, I will present a more just, is by European expansionism, which was not spared a single country in Asia, and this is the example cited to support his argument strong defense?

Many countries with the largest geographical area fell to the European expansionism during those times: a small country like Holland.

This is the real lesson:

This is not your Demak or Lanfang, there are countless examples of the same and some have an excellent defense, his failure is that no progressive mind to understand that people need to unite to create, not just about the meritocracy! It is also free to end the setting redundant, as the PAP, even when it preaches meritocracy, while the complicity autocracy.

European Reform, the lighting of new knowledge, the revival, political reform and renewed military thinking enabled them to increase total capacity to survive.

These new realities caused the fall of a myriad of small kingdoms of Asia, not because these small kingdoms were not strong defenses.

No one will dispute the defense of a country with its military power is not critical to the survival of the United Nations, in the fact that even a beginning.

For any country to survive the first rule is to change the unchangeable and maintain that total capacity to survive, the military is one of them, but not the most important. In the case of Singapore, PAP is the obstacle to the accumulation of total capacity as such.

Move to our context, our basic production capacity and savings will now military is the beginning of a new set of reality.

A nation can not survive on its own weapons, disagree?

A nation can not survive by people tired, do not you agree?

Then it can be sustained by a nation tired people manning these weapons?

We now have defense spending that is among the heaviest in the world per capita, on the shoulder of every man, woman and child, I remember the women and children are not combatants, which is the defense of country, a people tired, whose workforce is more labor intensive in the world, not all men, women and children born Spartan, disagree?

Now, the day before you tell them that everyone has their role and NS is not the problem, not this mean that the burden of such heavy fall even more in a smaller group of people and not you agree?

Besides that, you have paid disproportionate leader in the shoulders of these men!

And now you and your dad, sitting on top of this heap of human misery we'll be shouting together and move forward!
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