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."
GOLDSTEIN: Whatever his motive, Hussain served ISIS
Thursday, July 26, 2018
BCF :...........ā¦What none of this addresses, of course, is the more complex and nuanced question of whether Hussain was inspired by ISISās actions and rhetoric into doing exactly what ISIS has repeatedly said it wants its āsoldiersā to do, murder innocent civilians with any weapon thatās available ā guns, knives, vans, trucks.
We donāt know if that was a factor in Hussainās killing and wounding spree, either. Just
as we donāt know whether the mental illness he was said to suffer from,
according to a well-written and carefully-worded statement issued on
behalf of his family by a professional activist, as revealed by the Sunās Anthony Furey, was a contributing factor.
That
said, for the sake of not stigmatizing the mentally ill even more than
we already do, letās note that the vast majority of people who are
mentally ill are not violent and are far more likely to be victims of
crime, not perpetrators.
On September 11th 2001 a group of Asian men all suffering from the same mental illness and group hallucination, used legally obtained weapons to take control of several planes and fly them low over North America. This is why we should ban assault jets and get tougher gun control laws.ļ»æ
