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."
According to a new posting yesterday from Al Ahram Canada (not
independently verified), titled “The picture that shook the world:
priest goes out carrying his Bible returns to find bodies of four sons
on the floor”:
The man sitting on the floor in white clothes [in
picture] is a Christian priest in Syria who went out to preach the
Gospel and, upon returning home, found all his children killed — four
children killed at the hands of the terrorist groups. These terrorist
groups had pressured him to stop preaching the Gospel but he responded:
“It is not for others to silence my voice; I will preach the word of the
lord more than ever in the past and will proclaim that which I
believe.”
Thus he paid a high price for this when the terrorist groups
killed all four of his sons.
Al Ahram Canada does not note when this purported incident took place. Moreover, this picture did appear earlier
and was described by “activists” as portraying civilians killed by a
“Syrian Air Force fighter jet loyal to President Bashar
al-Assad.” However, because the mainstream media has been known to distort if not outright lie to demonize Assad in accord with U.S. policy — such as when the BBC ran a picture taken in Iraq 2003 claiming it was of massacred children in Syria 2012 — one still cannot be sure where the truth lies.
Furthermore, it should be pointed out that the children all seem to
have died from face/head wounds — produced by guns and/or knives? —
which are not indicative of airstrikes, which obviously would have
struck random parts of the body.
Put differently, at this point, and especially in the context of the
Syrian war, one has little to no reason to trust CNN, BBC, etc., anymore
than a small outfit like Al Ahram Canada. Thus, I translate what the latter is claiming, for the record, for balance.
