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."
Cairo professor: Muslim Brotherhood "underestimated the degree that they have alienated just about everybody else in this country"
Friday, August 16, 2013
Abdallah Schleifer, an American convert to Islam, is Professor
Emeritus of Journalism at the American University in Cairo.
"Misinformation about Egypt’s ‘massacre,’" by Abdallah Schleifer in Al Arabiya, 15th Augus:
No one really knows how many pro-Mursi protestors were
killed on Wednesday – the government says about 270, the Muslim
Brotherhood (MB) has been saying more than 2,000. My assumption is that
both parties are lying.
What will be interesting is to see how much attention is paid by the
same American and European political leaders – who responding to
disturbing television images, cannot resist criticizing the government
and the armed forces – to the minister of interior’s announcement
Wednesday night that 43 policemen were killed and more than 140 wounded.
This came among the 21 police stations attacked upon the orders of the
MB, the band that successfully stormed the Kerdesa police station (not
far from the Giza pyramids), not only killed the policemen on duty there
but mutilated their bodies.
