Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
You might be interested in Sarko's attitude to the riots in the Paris Slums a year or two ago.
As you remember the yobs - blacks mostly- burned cars and caused about as much damage as the UK lot. Sarko brought in the CRS and beefed them with three regiments of the Foreign Legion in black coveralls and balaclavas to disguise them as CRS gendarmes. Having arrested some 2000 and hospitalised about as many more, Sarko went on national TV. doing his best 'De Gaule act, he said " As patriots and true Frenchmen we all deplore this bestial behaviour mainly from our underclass minoroties. On Legal advice, I announce that as from 0800hrs tomorrow, anyone arrested of this type of behaviour will be deported immediately and within the day to his or her land of ethnic origin - whether they were born ...there or not and so will the rest of that family. If you don't believe, just try me the military aircraft are on standby.
An amazing thing happened, by midnight on that day all was quiet, the riot had stopped and peace restored. It was the families and parents of the miscreants who stopped it, fearful of being sent back to the Cote d'Ivoire or whereever because of little Abdul or Jean Claude's behaviour. Following that, those miscreants arrested were made to go and clean up the streets, supervised by the CRS.
Where are the English politicians with big balls to repeat the dose. Britain's wet handwringing gets laughed at by the tough right in Europe. Source
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