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."
If past is prologue, the White House will oversee the release of the 1993 WTC bomber By Michelle Malkin
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Egyptās
terror-coddling president, Mohamed Morsi, has repeated his arrogant
demand that America free convicted 1993 World Trade Center mastermind
Omar Abdel Rahman. Iād like to report that President Obama repeated his
unequivocal rejection of the Muslim Brotherhood leaderās entreaties. But
as of this writing, no such public statement or restatement yet exists. Thatās right. Obama has kept mum about Morsiās vociferous lobbying on
behalf of Abdel Rahman, the āblind sheik,ā who is serving a life
sentence at a maximum-security prison in North Carolina for seditious
jihad conspiracy. The commander-in-chiefās silence speaks volumes.
Morsi started publicly haranguing the U.S. to have mercy on the olā
blind sheik back in September. Representative Peter King (R., N.Y.)
confirmed to the New York Post at the time that the Egyptian
government had āasked for his releaseā and that the Obama administration
was considering the request. Underlings denied any talks were underway, but pressure on the White
House had been building since at least last June, when the State
Department granted a visa to a member of the radical Egyptian terrorist
group Gamaa Islamiyya (the very group the blind sheik is alleged to
lead). The Gamaa Islamiyya representative joined an entire delegation of
Egyptian lawmakers who met with top State Department and White House
officials. They reportedly discussed the possible release of the blind
sheik with at least one Obama national-security official.
In late August, Gamaa Islamiyya scheduled and organized a protest at
the Cairo embassy to further ratchet up public pressure to free the
blind sheik. Not coincidentally, a terror mob attacked the Cairo embassy
on 9/11/12. While Obama minions were busy blaming an obscure YouTube
video, the Department of Homeland Security had warned two days before
the Cairo attack that jihadists were inciting the āsons of Egyptā to
attack the embassy over Abdel Rahman. āLet your slogan be: No to the
American Embassy in Egypt until our detained sheikh is released,ā the
incitement thundered.Morsi has now amended his plea to include an array of āhumaneā
benefits and visitation privileges for the murderous Islamic cleric
ābecause he is a man, an old man, and he deserves full care.ā Lest you need reminding, the wily blind sheik has used his visitation
privileges to wreak more terror from behind bars. His radical left-wing
lawyer Lynne Stewart was convicted in 2005 of helping her client, the
imprisoned sheik, smuggle coded messages of Islamic violence to outside
followers, in violation of an explicit pledge to abide by her clientās
court-ordered isolation. This āold manā is a virulent anti-American propagandist who condemned
Americans as ādescendants of apes and pigs who have been feeding from
the dining tables of the Zionists, Communists, and colonialists.ā He has
called on Muslims to ādestroyā the West, āburn their companies,
eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes,
kill them on the sea, air, or land.ā And he has issued bloody fatwas
against U.S. āinfidelsā that inspired the 1993 WTC bombing; the 1997
massacre of Western tourists in Luxor, Egypt; and the 9/11 attacks.
As GOP watchdogs call for Obama to keep the blind sheik locked up, we
will no doubt hear more slick protestations that the White House has
āno plansā to release the terror preacher. But Iām with Andrew McCarthy,
the former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted Abdel Rahman:
McCarthy warned last fall, āThereās no way to believe anything they say.ā
This is the administration, after all, that endorsed the release of
convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, whose terrorist act
resulted in the murder of 189 Americans. The Obama White House feigned
āsurpriseā over the release, but documents obtained by the Sunday Times
of London in 2010 revealed that the administration āsecretly advised
Scottish ministers that it would be āfar preferableā to free the
Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.ā This is the administration whose attorney general was a senior law
partner for Gitmo-detainee cheerleaders Covington and Burling.
This is the administration that tried to shove Cirque du Jihad
civilian trials in NYC down Americaās throat, over objections from 9/11
families and national-security experts. This is the administration that has rolled out the red carpet for
scores of visitors who belong to groups serving as fronts for the Muslim
Brotherhood, Hamas, and other militant Islamic outfits. This is the administration that lied and blamed a YouTube video for
its own dereliction of duty at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya. This is the administration that suffers from chronic and deadly
apologitis when it comes to dealing with the demands of the Religion of
Perpetual Outrage. This is the administration that continues to deny it has plans to
shut down Guantanamo Bay and transfer inmates to the U.S., all while it
has quietly moved forward to purchase the Thomson Correctional Center in
western Illinois āto provide humane and secure confinement of
individuals held under authority of any Act of Congressā ā meaning Gitmo
detainees. Denial is a river that runs through 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but the
Obama administrationās tone-deaf acts of jihad appeasement speak for
themselves. Concern is more than warranted. Itās de rigueur. National Review
