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."
UK pub asks Muslim to remove “Islam” hoodie, hate crime investigation begins
Monday, July 25, 2016
This story also shows the reality behind “hate crime” statistics
trumpeted in the US by the likes of the Hamas-linked Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and in the UK by the discredited but
nevertheless still powerful Tell Mama UK:
This incident will almost
certainly go into Tell Mama’s statistics, and will thus help create the
impression that Muslims in the UK are routinely brutalized and
discriminated against.
That the reality was as innocuous as this will be
obscured by the wide dissemination of the bald statistic that Muslims
in the UK were the “victims of x number of hate crimes,” without
explaining that most of them were nothing more than a few shouted
insults (in which case I am the victim of multiple hate crimes) and, in
this case, a polite request made by people rendered jittery about Islam
by nothing more or less than the violent actions and declarations of
imminent conquest made by Muslims themselves.
Remember also that this is the BBC, which is so solicitous of Muslims that it removed the Munich shooter’s Muslim name from its reporting on that incident. That’s the reality, not “Islamophobia.” “Stevenage teacher asked to remove ‘Islam’ hoodie by pub,” BBC, July 20, 2016: