Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
DAP should stop using Islam as a political tool - By Commander (Rtd) S THAYAPARAN Royal Malaysian Navy
Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Malaysiakini : āThose who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We
are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use
religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just
such people that we have fought and will continue to fight.ā ā Mustafa Kemal AtatĆ¼rk
COMMENT | DAP has made two
announcements recently which probably signals the collapse of the
progressive movement here in Malaysia. The first is DAPās decision to
contest in Sungai Siput which may remove PSM from mainstream politics.
While DAPās decision to contest
in Sungai Siput is not unexpected ā PSM did set themselves against DAP
with their resolve to break out from their ghetto ā the reality is that
DAP has always been hostile to PSM, with their online supporters hurling
the most racist and ignorant statements against the socialist party and
their grassroots-level activism.
While DAP has had no problem embracing the party and the man who for
years they claimed brought this country to ruin, and have had no problem
introducing an Islamic sect to mainstream politics and then embracing
the splinter group of said sect causing overt divisions in political
Islam here in Malaysia, they have never accepted PSM for a variety of
justifications, none of which stands up to any scrutiny.
I sincerely hope that PSM is successful in its endeavours and
hopefully the long view strategy they embrace and grassroots-level work
they do will change Malaysia (eventually) unlike the failing strategy of
the mainstream opposition. Talking about failing strategy, DAPās
strategy to support āIslamisationā based on the constitution is the most
cynical exploitation of religion I have witnessed in some time.
