Confessions of a Prime Minister

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The confession, though, is no confession. In fact, instead of being an explicit display of remorse, it is an implicit self-exoneration coupled with an insinuation that the accusers, and not the accused, are the guilty ones. Clearly, it would be unreasonable for us to blame anyone for not being able to predict the future with complete accuracy (with 20/20 foresight, in other words); so the PAP is really not blamable, and it is unreasonable of the people to expect the PAP to be clairvoyant.

If there is a difference between the 2011 and the 2013 statements, it is the lack of the semblance of something like an apology this time round, suggesting perhaps a hardened attitude. Nevertheless, the mainstream media spin it as an admission of fallibility—as if the PAP has finally realized what they had done wrong. Channel NewsAsia came up with the headline, “PM Lee admits govt lacked 20/20 foresight”, which makes it seem as though the government is now able to see where it has gone wrong. It is unfortunate that even the PAP’s detractors, in acknowledging and emphasizing the lack of foresight, are paying more attention to what appears to be said than what is really being said. To unwittingly seem to expect the government to have 20/20 foresight is also to be susceptible to the accusation of having unreasonable expectations.

- http://mollymeek.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/confessions-of-a-prime-minister/
 
hmm... always had the idea that 20/20 is on hind sight :o:o:o
 
Lacked foresight while one of their MPs was having his foreskin played with.
 
Far from just not having 20/20 vision, it was actually 20/100 or 6/30 (in metric) vision. It seems to me a total ignorance of the 1.2 million FTs added to our population.

Incidentally, I wonder why the PM uses 20/20 which is an imperial measure instead of 6/6, a metric measurement.
 
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