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."
SORRY OSAMA: There Was Never An ‘Islamic Spain.’ That’s Just Another Dumb Leftist Myth
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Daily Caller : "Islamic Spain” (Al-Andalus) has been presented as some realm of
tolerance and respect, where learning burgeoned — nurtured by “ludic,”
or genial, Islam. (The word “ludicrous” is related). It’s a soothing
fairy tale to lull any card-carrying leftist to sleep. Meanwhile, back
with historical reality…
We know little about “Islamic Spain.” The Arabic documents are late
(written 400 to 700 years after the so-called “Islamic invasion” in 711
A.D.). They are also unreliable because Islamic history is not concerned
with facts, but with the imagined triumphs of the faith. Then, there are the Visigoths, who ruled Spain and parts of North
Africa in the early eighth century.
They were mostly Arian Christians,
that is, heretics who rejected the Trinity and believed Jesus to be a
special kind of human being, but not the Son of God. Much of Iberian
history at this time is the ongoing struggle between Trinitarian
(Catholic) and anti-Trinitarian Christianities, with the Byzantines (the
Eastern Roman Empire) playing the dominant role.
We have a few reliable Latin historical sources that mention Gothic,
Berber and Syrian-Arab anti-Trinitarian Christians fighting Trinitarians
around 711 A.D. But these sources do not mention “Islam,” “Moslems” or
the Koran. All we can say is that around the year 711 A.D., there is Christian
infighting (between Trinitarians and anti-Trinitarians) in Southern
Spain. When the dust settles, victory belongs to the anti-Trinitarian
faction, while the Trinitarians flee north — some into France.
One such the ruler of Cordoba, Abd-al-Rahman I (red-haired and
blue-eyed – hardly “Arab” traits) knew nothing of Mohammad, let alone
the Koran, but did profess typical anti-Trinitarian Christianity. How is
this to be explained by the Al-Andalus fairy tale?
