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."
There are ominous implications
of this entire episode, with the inevitable effect that school
officials will be wary of stopping Muslim students with suspicious
objects — making Obama exceedingly irresponsible, or worse, to join in
the lionization and canonization of this boy. And now it gets even worse.
Despite the whole world lining up to
praise and reward Ahmed Mohamed for being a putative victim of
“Islamophobia,” he and his family are clinging tenaciously to victim
status. He was showered with support from “Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerberg.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and
Google co-founder Sergey Brin,” while “Tweets, think pieces and daytime
TV segments were dedicated to dissecting how Ahmed’s situation typified
racism and Islamaphobia in America,” and he “visited the Google Science
Fair, met with Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir, posed with the queen
of Jordan at a United Nations Summit, appeared on the ‘Doctor Oz’ show
and last night, made it to the White House.”
“‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar,” by Jessica Contrera, Washington Post, October 20, 2015 :
