COMMENT What to make of Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s reflections on how different things might have been if “the Tunku had kept us together” - meaning had Singapore’s 1963 merger with Malaysia succeeded and not ended in separation in 1965?

In an interview with the New York Times , the elder statesman, whose 87th birthday falls today (Sept 16, incidentally, is Malaysia Day), ranged over a variety of subjects and...