Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
Obama vs. the First Amendment - He has given too much ground to Islamists By Andrew C. McCarthy
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Democrats
and their sharky Obamedia defense lawyers are in a snit. For three
dreamy convention days in Charlotte, they told themselves that, for the
first time in decades, it was their guy who had the upper hand when it
came to national security. Now that bubble has burst, the way contrived
narratives do when they crash into concrete challenges. At that point,
an airy president of the world wonāt do; we need to have a presidentof the United States, a job that has never suited, and has never been of much interest to, Barack Obama.
Defense against foreign enemies is the primary job of the president
of the United States. The rationale for the officeās creation is
national defense ā not green venture capitalism, not rationing medical
care, not improving the self-image of the āMuslim world,ā not leaving no
child behind, not blowing out the Treasuryās credit line. Yet, though
we are entering the late innings, foreign policy and national defense
have not been factors in the 2012 campaign. That is worth bearing in mind when we hear the laugh-out-loud
narrative of Obama as foreign-affairs chess master. The president badly
wants to win reelection. If there were anything to his alleged prowess,
weād not have heard the end of it. What weāve heard, instead, is a
bumper-sticker: āObama killed Osama.ā The Left hoped to paste it over
the presidentās generally dreary record. Even with the Obamedia in
coordinated overdrive, the plan can work only if Mitt Romney lets it
work ā and, thankfully, it looks like he wonāt.Give the president his due:
In 2008, he said he would go hard against terrorist havens, no matter
how upset this made John McCainās cherished āalliesā in Pakistan, and he
has. But even the welcome slamming of jihadist redoubts is undermined
by the mess Obama has made of terrorist detention ā so our forces kill
in situations where they could capture, drying up the intelligence
reservoir that has been vital to thwarting new cells and plots. Moreover, any president would have given the order to take bin Laden
out, and just about any post-9/11 president would bomb jihadist
hideouts. Whatās extraordinary about Obamaās performance in this regard
is that heās one you might have wondered about ā he gets graded on a
curve. But, thankful as we may be, this is thin camouflage for the rest
of Obamaās agenda, which is post-American, anti-constitutional, enabling
of the ideology that spawns terrorism, faithless toward our real
allies, and feckless in the face of menacing Iran. The game never goes according to plan. The batted ball always manages
to find the suspect fielder, no matter how hard the coach, or the
campaign, tries to hide him. On the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11
atrocities, the world and its affairs found the Obama administration ā
intruding on the presidentās effort to win reelection by a brand of
domestic class warfare that gives new meaning to the word āsmall.ā When it came, Obamaās moment was entirely predictable. It was, after
all, self-inflicted: the inevitable fallout of policy crafted by the
faculty-lounge pinhead, whose ideas are so saccharine smug thereās never
a thought of anything so jejune as their consequences. Obama being
Obama, when the consequences came, he crawled under his desk ā before
escaping to a Vegas fundraiser.
āThe Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing
efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of
Muslims.ā So declared the Obama State
Department in a statement issued on the website of its Egyptian
embassy. At the time, it was clear that another episode of Muslim mayhem
was imminent. The statement is a disgrace, just as Mitt Romney said it was. It
elevated over the U.S. Constitution (you know, the thing Obama took an
oath to āpreserve, protect, and defendā) the claimed right of sharia
supremacists (you know, āReligion of Peaceā adherents) to riot over
nonsense. Further, it dignified the ludicrous pretext that an obscure,
moronic 14-minute video was the actual reason for the oncoming jihad. Here is the important part, however, the part not to be missed, no
matter how determined the presidentās media shysters are to cover it up:
The disgraceful embassy statement was a completely accurate
articulation of longstanding Obama policy.
