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."
Malaysiakini : As results poured in from polling stations around Malaysia on the
night of May 9, with one parliamentary seat after another falling to the
opposition, a stunned Prime Minister Najib Razak stared defeat in the
face.
There was no hiding the fact: the Najib-led BN coalition that had run
Malaysia for the six decades since its independence from Britain, had
lost the election. Voter anger over GST, as well as allegations of corruption that had
swirled for years around Najib's government, and the apparently lavish
lifestyle of his wife, had finally taken its toll.
A consultant who was in Najib's office as the reality of the defeat
sank in said the prime minister was stunned. "When he knew that the
numbers were not on his side, Najib broke down," he said. Explaining Najib's shock on election night, one political strategist
with ties to the now-defeated government said it was not unusual for him
to be out of the loop when there were unwelcome developments.
"Najib lives in a bubble," he said. His advisers "don't accept others' views," he added. "They don't listen to bad news." Najib's removal, and the disarray in his camp during the campaign and
the election, was pieced together from interviews with about a dozen
political operatives and members of the ruling coalition and the
opposition.
