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."
Over the weekend, four terrorists preparing a rocket attack against
Israel were killed by a drone – probably Israeli – as they were getting
ready to launch their lethal weapons. The group that took “credit” for
preparing the terrorist attack is an Al-Qaeda affiliate calling itself
“Ansar Beit al Maqdes”. Writing in response to my recent post on the
origin of the name “Palestine”, my friend Ilan Pomeranc pointed out that
this Jihadi group’s name witnesses to the Jewish status of Jerusalem.
“Ansar Beit al Maqdes” literally means the “Army of the Holy Temple”.
Media outlets mistranslate the name as “Army for Jerusalem”, but
Jerusalem does not appear in the name at all. In Arabic, “Jerusalem” is
often called, in shorthand vernacular, “al-Quds”. What this term
literally means is “the Holy”. “Quds” is merely an Arabization of the
Hebrew “Kadosh” i.e., “Holy”. So if you put the two Arabic names for
Jerusalem together what you get is “al-Quds al-Maqdes” which literally
means “the place of the Holy Temple”.
