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."
“So
much violence, so many innocent people killed,” says Mina Thabet, an
Egyptian human-rights activist who lives in Cairo. “The [Mohamed] Morsi
supporters are armed and killing people in the streets. They are
targeting Copts. But if the Muslim Brotherhood had remained in power, we
would have the same violence and much more because he would use the
institutions of the country, the army and the police, against us.”
The
Muslim Brotherhood is using violence to terrorize Egypt, claiming the
lives of hundreds of Egyptians, many of whom were Christian. In the
violence that erupted on Wednesday and Thursday, 32 churches were
destroyed and 19 severely damaged, according to the Maspero Youth Union,
a Christian human-rights organization. Scores of Christian homes,
businesses, and automobiles were destroyed — all of this in roughly 24
hours.
And yet, bizarrely, Western media have largely portrayed the Muslim
Brotherhood as the victims of violence. Egypt’s moderates are not
persuaded that the brutality of the Muslim Brotherhood’s partisan
paramilitaries is a sign that the Morsi regime should have remained in
power. “The violence would come one way or the other,” Thabet observes.
“No, I have no regrets.”