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."
Najib, our security apparatus not an Umno division - By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, April 02, 2018
Malaysiakini : āThose who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.ā ā Lysander Spooner
COMMENT | What I despise more
than religious extremism ā the existential threat to our country ā is
the way in which politicians propagandise the military. Check that. What
I despise more is when the military top brass canoodles up to
politicians. Nowhere is this more evident when armed forces chief Raja
Mohamed Affandi Raja Mohamed Noor urged our security apparatus to be
loyal to the government headed by the Umno grand poobah.
The government does not pay for all those āentitlementsā that the
state security apparatus gets. Those are paid for by our tax ringgit. We
live in a country where non-Malays are routinely demonised for not
showing loyalty, but the reality is that the security apparatus in this
country is a bastion of racial dysfunction by design. It was not always
so. Read the public comments of retired brigadier-general Mohamed Arshad Raji as to the āissuesā non-Malays face in the armed forces.
In the West, politicians go on bended knee and proclaim how they are
grateful for the military service men and women do for their country.
Civilians of a certain political persuasion or those who feel the need
to burnish their patriotic credentials make asinine statements of how
they are grateful to the service these men and women provide to their
country.