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."
If the Egyptian army was unable
to prevent the killing of 16 border guards by Muslim terrorists in its
own base in the Sinai Peninsula, how is it expected to protect the
Pyramids and the Great Sphinx?
Egypt's Muslim fundamentalists are now calling for the destruction of
the Pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza under the pretext that Islam
prohibits idols. If the extremists have no respect for human life, why should they care about a pyramid or a statue? Murjan Salem al-Johari, one of Egyptian leaders of the Saudi-inspired
Wahhabis, otherwise referred to as the "Salafis," said that it was the
duty of all Muslims to destroy the Pyramids and the Great Sphinx just as
the Taliban destroyed two ancient statues of the Buddha in Afghanistan
in 2001.
"All statues in Egypt must be destroyed," al-Johrai declared
in a TV interview. "Muslims must implement the rules of Sharia and we
will destroy the statues of Sphinx and the Pyramids because they are
idols."The call for destroying the Pyramids and the Great Sphinx came after
Muslim extremists destroyed, earlier this year, priceless Buddhist
statues in the Maldives. In 2001, the Taliban destroyed irreplaceable historic artifacts in
Afghanistan after its leader issued a fatwa [religious decree] against
all "idolatrous images" of humans and animals.
The call for destroying the Pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza is
yet another sign of the growing influence of the "Salafis" and other
radical Islamic groups in Egypt in the aftermath of the "Arab Spring." There is not much that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohamed
Morsi, can do to stop these extremists from achieving their goal. Instead of directing his protests against the Muslim terrorists who
are intimidating Egyptian Christians and threatening to blow up the
Pyramids and the great Sphinx, Morsi is busy trying to stop Israel from
defending itself against the rockets and missiles launched from the Gaza
Strip by Hamas and other terror groups.
Morsi has thus far failed to liberate Sinai from the control of the
extremists, who have turned the peninsula into a terror entity. If the
Egyptian army was unable to prevent the killing of 16 border guards by
Muslim terrorists in its own base in the Sinai, how is it expected to
protect the Pyramids and the Great Sphinx? Gatestone Institute
