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."
Shhhh, Don’t Tell Anyone Hamas won by By Andrew C. McCarthy
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Barack
Obama brought enough Chicago-style community organizing to Israel that
Benjamin Netanyahu knew what he would have to do. If he hoped to keep
the tepid support of his country’s essential but icy ally, Israel’s
prime minister would have to do what he’d spent nearly three years
steadfastly refusing to do. Netanyahu would have to apologize to a state sponsor of terrorism that openly, notoriously, and enthusiastically supports Hamas. He would have to apologize to Turkey — to its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Obama’s close friend and confidant. He would have to apologize for military action taken in his country’s righteous defense against violent jihadists with close connections to Erdogan’s ruling party and, seamlessly, to the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as al-Qaeda. As I recount in Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, the violent jihadists in question were from the grotesquely named “Humanitarian Relief Foundation” or IHH (İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı). The IHH is an Islamic “charity” based and basted in the Islamic supremacism of Erdogan’s Turkey. It is part of the Union of Good (sometimes referred to as the “Union for Good”), a jihadist umbrella enterprise that was designated
by the United States government, during the Bush administration, as an
international terrorist organization. Under the direction of a top
Muslim Brotherhood honcho, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Union of Good’s
main purpose is to transfer funds to Hamas, another designated
terrorist organization. Besides being the Brotherhood’s Palestinian
branch, Hamas boasts Turkey, our NATO “ally,” as its chief benefactor. In late May 2010, IHH terrorists attempted to break Israel’s lawful
naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The blockade is necessary to stem the
flow of weapons to Hamas, Gaza’s rulers having responded to Israel’s
painful peace offering — its withdrawal in 2005 from territory it had
captured in a war of Arab aggression — by stepping up their terror
campaign against the Jewish state. In seeking to break the blockade, an
act of war, the IHH was willfully abetted by the Turkish government. Israeli officials had pleaded with their Turkish counterparts to
prevent the terrorists from embarking on their “peace flotilla.” Members
of Erdogan’s government and party not only turned a deaf ear; they sold
the jihadists the offending vessel, the Mavi Marmara. They
allowed the jihadists — armed with flares, night-vision goggles, 150
bulletproof vests, 200 gas masks, several dozen slingshots, 200 knives,
20 axes, 50 wooden clubs, 100 assorted iron bars, etc. — to board the
ship without inspection. When the inevitable high-seas confrontation
occurred, the Israeli Defense Forces tried to subdue the terrorists with
paintball guns. The IDF resorted to lethal force only after being
premeditatedly and savagely attacked — with several of its sailors
seriously wounded. In that response, nine of the terrorists were killed. Squeezed by Obama, Netanyahu would have to apologize for the killing of those terrorists. More often than not these last five years, Israel’s prime minister
has felt President Obama’s heel on the back of his neck. In stark
contrast, Turkey’s prime minister has enjoyed Obama’s warm embrace. In
Ankara, Erdogan hosts the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah as foreign
dignitaries. He accuses Israel of turning Gaza into a “concentration
camp.” Only days before Netanyahu’s coerced apology, Erdogan — whose
history of anti-Semitism is infamous — publicly pronounced that Zionism is a “crime against humanity.” This heinous accusation, “crime against humanity,” has become
something of a verbal tic with Erdogan. He cavalierly applies it to
Israel’s self-defense from thousands of jihadist rockets fired into its
territory, and to the suggestion by European governments that the
millions of Muslims who’ve immigrated to the West ought to assimilate
into their new societies. Nevertheless, Obama openly regards Erdogan as
one of his most trusted partners on the world stage. “The bottom line is
that we find ourselves in frequent agreement upon a wide range of
issues,” said
Obama of Erdogan in March 2012, upon seeking him out at a South Korea
summit for advice on the crisis in Syria, the tumult in Egypt, the nukes
in Iran — even the challenges of raising daughters.With Obama on the phone egging him on, Netanyahu abased himself. Not
only did he apologize to Turkey, he further capitulated to Erdogan’s
demand that Israel pay compensation to the Mavi Marmara “victims.” After the apology, Erdogan briefed his Hamas confederates and announced
he would be visiting them in Gaza next month. Predictably, he has since
announced that Netanyahu’s humiliating act of contrition will not be sufficient to restore diplomatic relations between the two nations. Just as predictably, other Islamic states are now preparing demands for apologies and compensation for sundry exercises of Israeli self-defense against jihadist terror. National Review
