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 : The History of Jihad
comes from Muslim Spain, that celebrated beacon of tolerance and
multiculturalism. The tolerance of Abd al-Rahman III, the tenth-century
Umayyad caliph of Córdoba, is illustrated by the eleventh-century Muslim
historian Ibn Hayyan of Córdoba as he details a typical incident when
Christian prisoners were brought into the presence of the caliph:
Muhammad [one of the officers of Abd al-Rahman III] chose
the 100 most important barbarians [that is, Christians] and sent them
to the alcazar of Córdoba, where they arrived Friday, 7 of the yumada I
[March 2, 939]…All the prisoners, one by one, were decapitated in his
presence and under his eyes, in plain sight of the people, whose
feelings against the infidels Allah alleviated, and they showered their
blessings on the Caliph. The death of these barbarians was celebrated in
a poem by Ubaydallah b. Yahya b. Idris, saying:
Defeated the prisoners arrived,
Carried and shackled by Allah,
Like an angry lion you looked at them,
Surrounded by wild lions and dragons,
And in plain sight of everyone your sword annihilated them,
Among blessings and praises to Allah.
