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."
Security guard wounded in jihad attack at Muhammad cartoon event sues FBI, charges coverup
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
Good for Bruce Joiner. There are many, many unanswered questions
about what happened at Garland, and about what the FBI was doing there.
60 Minutes ran a feature
last March about the FBIās curious role in the May 2015 Garland jihad
attack at a free speech event co-organized by Pamela Geller and me.
It
was, predictably enough, viciously biased, sloppy, and incomplete, but
it was nonetheless illuminating in raising a hard and unanswerable
question: did the FBI want Pamela Geller and me dead?
Despite the fact that the jihad attack took place at our event,
neither Geller nor I appear, except in one still photo, in the 60
Minutes piece. All they say is that āa self-described free speech
advocate named Pamela Geller was holding a provocative contest.ā
Despite all the predictable politically correct whitewashing and
appeasement, CBS did a good job of highlighting a curious and still
unexplained aspect of the attack: the FBI clearly knew the attack was
coming (although it didnāt bother to inform us or our security team), as
the FBI agent was right there, following behind the jihadis, whom he
had encouraged to ātear up Texas.ā But even though they knew the attack
was coming, they didnāt have a team in place to stop the jihadis.
They
had one man there, and one man only. The jihadis were not stopped by FBI
agents, but by our own security team. If the jihadis had gotten through
our team, they would have killed Pamela Geller and me, and many others.
(They would no doubt have loved to kill Geert Wilders, but he left
before they arrived.)
The Daily Beast wrote in August 2016
about how this undercover FBI agent encouraged the jihadis. The Beastās
Katie Zavadski wrote: āDays before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a
cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover
FBI agent. āTear up Texas,ā the agent messaged Elton Simpson days
before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an
affidavit (pdf) filed in federal court Thursday.āāVictim of āDraw Muhammadā ISIS-inspired terror attack sues FBI, accuses James Comey of cover-up,ā by Todd Shepherd, Washington Examiner, October 2, 2017 :
