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."
The U.N. Tilt to Terrorists - As the attacks out of Gaza continued, Israel pleaded. The U.N. ignored it by Claudia Rosett
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Nowhere
in the charter of the United Nations is there any mandate for the U.N.
to stack the deck in favor of terrorists. Yet that is exactly the effect
of the current U.N. furor over conflict between Israel and the
terrorists who control Gaza.
When terrorists in Hamas-run Gaza busied themselves in recent years
launching well over 2,000 rocket and mortar attacks on Israel, including
hundreds of attacks in recent months, the U.N. shrugged it off as
business as usual. Thatās not to say that the U.N. ignored the attacks
entirely. As the bombardments went on, and on, a few U.N. officials did
occasionally call for them to stop. But these statements were invariably
coupled with calls for Israel to practice ārestraint,ā or, as
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon put it last week, āmaximum restraint.ā
Under the circumstances, this amounts to a demand that Israel refrain
from defending itself. That might make sense were
the U.N. itself devoted to protecting Israel by genuinely rolling up
terrorists in Gaza. But the U.N. offers no such service. On the
contrary, lacking even an official definition of terrorism, the U.N.
works alongside the Palestinian terrorist groups that infest Gaza,
especially Hamas, which controls the enclave and is dedicated in its
charter to Israelās destruction. The U.N. has made an entire
sub-industry out of subsidizing Gaza, serving as a conduit for Western
tax dollars to bankroll a wide array of social services. That helps free
up Gazaās terrorist overlords, backed by Iran, to focus their energies
on acquiring and using munitions to attack Israel. In recent days, these
attacks have included the launching of Iranian Fajr-5 rockets, with a
range that extends as far as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The pattern has been that Hamas and its brethren terrorist groups in
Gaza pay no heed to the U.N.ās feeble calls to desist. The job of
preventing the attacks on Israel falls squarely on the Israelis. In the
U.N.ās morally inverted cosmos, this sets the stage for savaging Israel,
as soon as Israel acts to defend itself. Courtesy of the U.N., chalk up
a gain for the terrorists. So, when Israel finally struck back on November 14 by killing Hamas
military commander Ahmed al-Jabari and targeting terrorist nests and
rocket-launching sites in Gaza, the U.N. swung immediately into
overdrive. In short order, Secretary-General Ban phoned Israeli prime
minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express āconcernā about āthe
deteriorating situation.ā The U.N. Security Council held a crash meeting
that same evening, in closed session, to discuss āthe situation in the
Middle East, including the Palestinian question.āThe U.N.ās Palestinian-refugee agency, UNRWA (the U.N. Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), headquartered in
Gaza, promptly began issuing situation reports, noting in passing that
the rocket attacks out of Gaza should stop, while deploring in detail
Israelās actions to stop them. From Geneva, the U.N.ās high commissioner
for human rights, Navi Pillay, pronounced herself āappalled,ā and her
spokesperson declared she was āfollowing the unfolding situation in Gaza
and southern Israel with considerable alarm.ā With terrorists in Gaza continuing the rocket attacks, and Israel
continuing to strike back, Ban decided to ramp up U.N. efforts at
intervention, releasing a statement that āI am heading to the region to
appeal personally for ending the violence and contribute to ongoing
efforts to that end.ā By Monday, Ban had landed in Cairo, for the
beginning of an emergency swing through the region.For the sake of clarity, as U.N. declarations of dismay now flood the
news, letās replay this tape. Terrorist attacks on Israel are of no
urgent concern to the U.N. But when Israel tries to defend itself by
striking the terrorists, U.N. officials at the highest levels start
scrambling to put a stop to what they call a deteriorating situation. Where were all these U.N. officials while Israel was living through
the bombardments that finally provoked its current response, Operation
Pillar of Defense?
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