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."
Don’t Relativize Radical Islam A response to Michael Gerson. By Bobby Jindal
Thursday, February 05, 2015
National Review : Two weeks ago, I made a speech in London insisting that America and our European allies deal forthrightly with the threat posed by the rise of radical Islam.
It was to be expected that this call for candor and strength would be met with derision from the relativists on the left.
This unfortunate criticism has also come from a few in the soft middle of professional American politics, most prominently on the pages of the Washington Post by columnist Michael Gerson.
Gerson says my blunt assessments of the threats facing the free nations of the West are a “disaster for democratic discourse.” With no irony at all, he uses loaded words such as “cartoon,” “extreme,” “corrupt,” “fraud,” and “hoax” to describe them in what he ostensibly presents as a call for more nuanced language from me.
A decade prior, this same Mr. Gerson spared no rhetorical edge in describing the existential threat of radical Islam and other rogue totalitarian regimes. In fact, that was his full-time job as a speech-writer in the war-time administration for President George W. Bush. Mr. Gerson, now a self-appointed ambassador for verbal restraint, actually coined the phrase “axis of evil” to describe our most dangerous enemies.
One of President Bush’s strengths as a leader was his fearlessness in calling out right and wrong. His refusal to place modern culture’s lurch to contrived equivocation ahead of his sworn obligations to defend a nation built on clearly defined values will be his most enduring legacy. His wordsmith Mr. Gerson helped him communicate that core leadership in plain terms, and the nation was better for it.
