>But guess what? Malaysia's New Straits Times saw fit to re-print
>Berstein's NYT obit! Dumbness? Yes. But it is also a symptom of the
>contradictions of the Mahathirist establishment, something
>apparently not much appreciated in progressive international NGO
>circles.
Could you talk a bit more about this? I've been distressed to hear pwoggies pwaising Mahathir, who seems like a bigot and hypernationalist from a distance. What are these contradictions, and what is this establishment, you refer to?
Doug