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."
On February 12, 2016, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) was held. It’s described
as “the world’s largest gathering of its kind”; “the most important
independent forum for the exchange of views by international security
policy decision-makers,” where “about 350 senior figures from more than
70 countries around the world to engage in an intensive debate on
current and future security challenges.”
It’s apparently also where lying about one of the “current and future security challenges”—Islamic terrorism—goes unchallenged. Enter Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s foreign affairs minister. This
representative of the one nation that has done more than any other to
spread radical Islamic ideology spun lie after lie during his 20 minute presentation before a captive audience.
Jubeir began by trying to kill two birds with one stone: distancing
Islam from ISIS in a way to demonize and incite the world against Syrian
leader Bashar al-Assad:
Daesh [Arabic acronym for ISIS] is a terrorist
organization composed of psychopaths who have no religion and no morals.
They attract other psychopaths and it’s a cult. And it will be
defeated. But in order to defeat Daesh, we have to deal with what I
call the two elephants in the room. One of those elephants is Bashar al
Assad. We cannot defeat Daesh in Syria unless we bring about change in
Bashar al-Assad. He is the man who helped create it by releasing
radicals from his jails, by allowing Daesh to operate without attacking
them, by even trading with them. He is the man that allowed them to
become what they are.
So the Saudi minister of propaganda would have the world believe that
the secular, non-Sunni, Assad is the man who “created” and empowers
ISIS—a radical Sunni jihadi group born and bred on Saudi Islamic
indoctrination and dedicated to overthrowing none other than Assad
himself. The Saudi minister also managed to invoke the one Koran verse that is forever on the lips of Islam’s apologists:
In the Islamic faith the Koran reveals that you have your
faith and I have my faith [109:6]. You are free to practice your faith
and I am free to practice mine. What greater sign of tolerance and
acceptance do you have than this?…
