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."
Arab jihadis took bloody sharia retribution on Mali's black Africans
Sunday, February 03, 2013
The people of Gao endured nine months of amputations and floggings under
the rule of Islamist rebels ā much of it aimed at ethnic groups.
Incredible... 9 months of atrocities and not a pip from the UN.
A thief would lose his right hand. Those accused of burglary would lose
both their right hand and left foot. On 21 December last year, people
were assembled, as they had been several times before, and told to
watch."No one was allowed to speak," said Issa Alzouma. "Then they cut off my hand with a knife."
Alzouma had been accused of stealing a motorbike, which he denies. At
39, he made a living digging gravel for construction companies. It was
enough to support his wife and three children. Now he roams Gao in
tattered clothes, the stump of his right arm wrapped in a grubby
bandage, a flimsy black plastic bag dangling from his remaining wrist.
Inside he keeps a few antibiotics and replacement bandages given by a
Red Cross doctor who treated him at Gao hospital a week after his
amputation.
"The doctor had to cut in and remove flesh because it was infected," he
said. "Under the bandage you can see my bones. It hurts and I feel as if
my bones are coming out." Hat tip: Eye On The WorldMore...