George Yeo was a former Brigadier General and SAF scholar. What does he know about foreign affairs, and commercial negotiations? Apparently, his Malaysian counterparts who were not scholar generals actually know a thing or 2 about these sort of negotiations, that was why he and the country were taken to the cleaners. If this is not a clear case of the uselessness and unfitness of SAF Generals to run important govt posts, than I don't know what is. Would Singapore have agreed to giving malaysia the 3 parcels of prime land if we had known before hand that we could not recoup some of that by charging $1.47 billion in development charges? I doubt it. georgie thought he was smart and outplay the mats by allowing them the 3 parcels of land for free and than get something for them later on by charging the $1.47 billion in development costs on the parcels. In the end, he is in a cushy job in HKG, and sinkie tax payers holding the bag. Mats laughing all the way to the bank and Gay loong saying he "welcomes" this decision. This in a microcosm is why the country is so fucked up.