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."
Jihad Watch : Thus did this pope, who has consistently been a stout defender of Islam
and Muslims, the man who has claimed “there is no such thing as Islamic
terrorism,” that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran
are opposed to every form of violence,” that “Islam is a religion of
peace, one which is compatible with respect for human rights and
peaceful coexistence,” chose to dwell one-sidedly on the guilt of
Christians.
And just a little more than two weeks ago, Pope Francis had
chastised those Italian voters who had supported anti-Muslim parties,
including La Lega, in the recent election, insisting that “fear” (their
fear of Muslim migrants) was not a good basis for policy. Others disagree,
pointing out that when it is justified, apprehension (a more
acceptable-sounding synonym than “fear”) can be as sound a basis for
policy, and sometimes a good deal sounder, than the absence of fear.
It
was Churchill who had “feared” Hitler and the Nazis all through the
1930s, having recognized that appeasement would never work, while those
who thought they could make a deal with Hitler — the Cliveden Set, Lord
Halifax, Prime Minister Chamberlain — did not.
It was “fear” of Stalin’s
plans that led the Western democracies, sensibly, to such measures as
the NATO military alliance, and the same intelligent “fear” of Communist
expansion also led to American subsidies to the non-Communist parties
in France and Italy in the late 1940s and early 1950s, so as to prevent
the takeover, through free elections, of those countries by their very
large Communist parties.