The ‘Greening’ of Mahathir Mohamad

With the continuing controversy of his confrontation with Najib Tun Razak, the man he anointed in 2009 to take over as prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad may be learning a political lesson. As Samuel T. Rayburn, the late Speaker of the US House of Representatives, once said, “What goes around comes around.”

Since he started his campaign to push out Najib, …