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."
Turkey: Janissary chases Santa out of town in anti-New Year’s celebration
Sunday, January 04, 2015
Jihad Watch : In the Ottoman Empire, the Janissaries were an elite military group
made up of men who had as children been taken forcibly from their
Christian families and converted to Islam.
The Janissaries were often
used against their own ancestral people — for jihad attacks against
Christian areas. Here, they have become a symbol of rapidly
re-Islamizing Turkey’s rejection of the Christian and post-Christian
West.
“Janissary chases Santa Claus out of town in symbolical anti-New Year’s Eve celebration act,” Hürriyet Daily News, December 31, 2014 (From to Blazing Cat Fur):
Amid increasing anger at official and popular levels at
the supposed Christian aspects of New Year’s celebrations in Turkey,
members of the far-right Great Unity Party (BBP) symbolically ran Santa
out of town Dec. 31 in the northwestern province of Bolu.
In a skit performed on the city’s central İzzet Baysal Avenue, Santa
began distributing gifts to passersby, prompting the “sultan” – who
happened to chance upon the scene – to ask his vizier what was
occurring. After being informed, the sultan shouted, “Throw him out of
the city,” precipitating a chase as Santa attempted to elude pursuing
Janissaries.
“Citizens are celebrating because they’re entering a new year,” said
BBP Bolu Chair Mahmut Alan. “We’re against the celebration of [new
year]. We wanted to express this with a play.”
