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."
Egypt Continues to Follow the ‘Turkish Model’ of Sharia Totalitariansim By Andrew C. McCarthy
Friday, December 07, 2012
In Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy,
which is generously reviewed by VDH in the current edition of NR, I
argue that Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood will follow (and is
following) the trail blazed by Turkey’s Islamist prime minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan and his Brotherhood-influenced party, the AKP. This path
is called the “Turkish Model” by enthusiasts of “Islamic democracy.” As I
demonstrate in the book, the Turkish Model is actually a formula for
turning a society that is pro-Western and reasonably democratic into a
sharia state — the implementation of sharia, Islam’s societal framework,
being the goal of all Islamic supremacists. As Erdogan put it,
“Democracy is just the train we board to reach our destination” — not a
way of life, but a route to Islamization.
For various reasons, I contend in the book that Egypt will descend
into sharia totalitarianism much more quickly than the decade it has
taken Erdogan to accomplish the still ongoing process in Turkey. That
theory is borne out more with each passing day. One of Erdogan’s key
tools of intimidation and the crushing of dissent is the abuse of
prosecutorial authority. Mohamed Morsi is proving a quick study.
One of Morsi’s early moves was to sack the prosecutor general and
appoint a Brotherhood loyalist, Talaat Ibrahim Abdallah. (See this photo of
Morsi meeting with Abdallah within minutes of the latter’s
swearing-in.) Today, in the middle of the debate over the new sharia
constitution that Morsi is planning to ram-rod through in a referendum
next week, the Egypt Independentreports
that Abdallah has opened an investigation against several of Morsi’s
principal political opponents — including former presidential candidates
Amr Moussa and Mohamed ElBaradei, as well as Ahmed al-Zend, the head of
the so-called “Judges Club” — on suspicion of espionage and sedition.
The report elaborates that the investigation is based on a lawyer’s complaint, alleging that
Moussa met with former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and
agreed with her to fabricate internal crises, and that all of the
politicians named in his complaint then met at the Wafd Pary
headquarters to implement the “Zionist plot.” He requested that the
accused be banned from travel and that the Wafd Party headquarters be
confiscated for investigation. Filing criminal charges against
opposition figures was a common practice during former President Hosni
Mubarak’s era.
Yeah . . . and it’s a common practice in Islamic “democracies.” National Review
