While Lee's pride in Singapore's economic and geopolitical success – flourishing despite what he describes as the envy and mortal enmity of its two larger neighbors – is overbearing, he calls the achievement as permanent as "an 80-storey building on marshland."To the citizens who've grown up reciting the idealistic, multiracial pledge of the government now headed by his son, one of Lee's hard truths is that 45 years of nation-building haven't succeeded and increased religiosity prevents the country's 13 percent of Muslims from becoming fully part of the community. Full story
