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."
Moral Equivalence in the Middle East - The West has developed a dangerous concern for ‘proportionality.’
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
National Review : In the current epidemic of Palestinian violence, scores of Arab
youths are attacking, supposedly spontaneously, Israeli citizens with
knives.
Palestinian Terrorist with a sling shot
Apparently, edged weapons have more Koranic authority, and, in
the sense of media spectacle, they provide greater splashes of blood.
Thus the attacker is regularly described as “unarmed” and a victim when
he is “disproportionately” stopped by bullets.
The Obama State Department has condemned the use of “excessive” Israeli
force in response to Palestinian terrorism. John Kirby, the hapless
State Department spokesman, blamed “both” sides for terrorism, and the
president himself called on attackers and their victims to “tamp down
the violence.”
In short, the present U.S. government — which is subsidizing the
Palestinians to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year — is
incapable of distinguishing those who employ terrorist violence from the
victims against whom the terrorism is directed. But why is the Obama
administration — which can apparently distinguish those who send out
drones from those who are blown up by them on the suspicion of employing
terrorist violence — morally incapable of calling out Palestinian
violence?
After all, in the American case, we blow away suspects whom we
think are likely terrorists; in the Israeli instance, they shoot or
arrest those who have clearly just committed a terrorist act.