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 PM HAS BEEN LEADING THIS COUNTRY ON A VAGUE IDEA!
Saturday, December 08, 2012
1 Malaysia concept vague āby designā, says PM By Martin Jalleh When
Najib Razak first introduced āOne Malaysiaā to Bolehland, no one except
him knew (or we thought he knew) what it really meant. As time
passed by his Cabinet ministers and his cohorts chanted the slogan
trying to convince the rakyat that they knew what it really meant.
Now, three
years later, the man who mooted the concept says he had ādeliberately
not defined the idea so its meaning could absorb different views over
timeā.
Martin Jalleh responds to Najib's sly stunt.
PM:
I didnāt define the concept very clearly, but that was by design. I had
decided it needed to have an āelement of strategic ambiguityā when I
introduced it three years ago so that the concept could be broadened to
include other views from the public.
MJ: So vague is now the
vogue of your premiership, Mr Prime Minister? What a āstrategic excuseā
when after three years of your tenure 1 Malaysia has
become one big absolute joke and being mimicked by your Cabinet and
cohorts who pretend to know what it all means!
PM: The concept I envisioned, to promote the idea of inclusiveness among the races, has been translated
into policy and was clearly understood now even though some quarters have been sceptical at the onset.
MJ:
The results of your vague vision are very clear ā never before has this
country been so divided by race and religion than now! Indeed, Umnoās
exclusiveness has never been as evident than now!
PM: They may
not see 1 Malaysia as something practised within the entire government
system. But then again people must realise this is a journey. (He said
this in response to scepticism from the minority races outside the
ruling Barisan Nasionalās (BN) Malay party, Umno.)
MJ:
Indeed, it has
been a long journey of flip-flops, farcical transformation, fanciful
public relations, fraudulent claims and foolhardy decisions by you and
your government, Mr PM.
PM: My idea is more comprehensive than
had been previously envisioned by the countryās past leaders as I have
promoted the fundamental principles and values of social justice,
inclusivity and moderation.
MJ:
āSocial justice, inclusivity and moderationā? Alas, you choose to have
only a vague idea of what is really happening in this country, Mr PM. It
was only yesterday that you admitted that Umno has not changed. I am
sure that you are aware that your party has
everything to do with the very opposite of āsocial justice, inclusivity
and moderationā in this country!
PM: This is the first time that
weāre trying to really define it in terms of the principles and values
associated with 1 Malaysia. In the past, people talked about working
together, but there was no real operational definition of what that
meant.
MJ:
In the past, there was no need of sloganeering and rhetoric like yours!
We learned to live together, we co-existed, there was interdependence.
Then the Umnoputras got greedy and corrupt and began to bleed the
country dry. The
Malays were mislead,
manipulated
and made to believe that their sufferings were due to the non-Malays!
MJ: Please note ā with each passing day, the future of your premiership is becoming very vague!
(Quotes
taken and adapted from Malaysian Insider, 7 Dec 2012, which highlighted
excerpts from an interview published in the Malay Mail today)
