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."
Muslims are doing the US and Israel a favour every time they kill one of
their own, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today as he called for unity
among Islam’s followers to push for global recognition of a Palestinian
state. He said Muslims today are too preoccupied with revenge and killing each
other over ideological differences, that they have forgotten that the
Quran calls for brotherhood among all the faithful. “Currently we are trying to bring down governments, we are fighting each
other, and we are accusing each other of not being Islamic enough, just
so that we can murder them. “Every time a Muslim kills another Muslim, the Israelis and Americans
cheer because we are doing their work for them. We should realise that
and stop fighting each other,” he said in his keynote address at the launch of a US$1 billion (RM3.6 billion) fund raiser to rebuild Gaza.
This dovetails nicely with the video yesterday of Abd Al-Bari Atwan saying that Arabs must wage jihad against Israel since it is all they can unite on.
Mahatir is arguing the flip side: the reason that Muslims shouldn't kill
each other is because it makes Israel happy. Clearly, Mahatir knows
that telling them not to fight each other because killing is a bad thing
won't get through to them, but if they know that Israelis are happy
that they are killing each other, that might be enough to get them to
stop - because who can stand when Jews are happy? Mahatir is a known antisemite, a fact of which he is proud. Dr Mahathir, long a critic of US foreign policy, claimed that the Muslim world in its current state of disunity is unable to counter the West’s “hypocrisy of the highest order” in dealing with terrorism and human rights.
He accused Israel and its western backers of being “state terrorists” responsible for the killing of 200,000 Palestinians, describing it as a far worse act of terrorism compared to the deadly attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo earlier this month.
200,000? Not quite. The number of Palestinian Arabs killed by Israel in 66 years is about one tenth of his estimate.
But it seems a little silly to expect him to say anything truthful to begin with. From EoZ
Yeah if so 20,000 Palestinians killed in 66 years is a fact, still the murderers still not brought to justice.