Even the foreign expert says so

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Ahead of today’s much antic­i­pated report on the escape of Mas Sela­mat Kas­tari, Today­on­line had an arti­cle talk­ing about ter­ror­ism and what our fine nation’s efforts have done and not done.

It says William Dob­son, “man­ag­ing edi­tor of global pol­i­tics mag­a­zine For­eign Pol­icy” com­ments that “Most coun­tries’ strate­gies end with arrest­ing ter­ror­ists. How­ever, he said, Singapore’s bat­tle against ter­ror­ism is com­pre­hen­sive and effec­tive as it also tries to pre­vent extrem­ism and attempts to reform ter­ror­ists in detention.”

See? It was always a “catch and release” program.

But the thrust of the arti­cle is of course the “C” word:

He cau­tioned that although Sin­ga­pore has been effec­tive in “damp­en­ing the threat of extrem­ism”, it needs to guard against com­pla­cency. “When you’re very effec­tive on a con­sis­tent basis, it’s easy to begin to believe that you’re rel­a­tively infal­li­ble or there are no other, bet­ter ways to do things,” he said, cit­ing the escape of JI leader Mas Sela­mat Kas­tari as an example.

Ang Moh say what is what lor.