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."
The Pipe-Bombs Story: Another Example of Why No One Trusts the Media By Andrew C. McCarthy
Thursday, October 25, 2018
National Review : The political Left has been known to orchestrate frame-up attacks
designed to make it appear that right-leaning opponents are responsible
for violent acts and plots.
If I wrote the paragraph above in the context of reporting or
commenting on the pipe bombs that were reportedly sent by an
unidentified person or persons to prominent Democrats, many people would
react angrily, and rightly so.
After all, there is no evidence that the
atrocious but thankfully unsuccessful targeting of the Obamas, the
Clintons, CNN, George Soros, and Eric Holder (as well as āDebbie Wasserman Shultz,ā whose Florida office, with her name misspelled,
was given as the return address on some of the packages) was carried
out by political leftists.
There is no proof that any Democrat was
hoping to cast suspicion on Republican supporters, to suggest to voters,
less than two weeks before the midterms, that Trump and GOP rhetoric
incites violence. To intimate, in the absence of any proof, that
left-wing agitators may be responsible would be a condemnable smear
Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Obama, Mr. Soros and CNN have all
figured prominently in conservative political attacks ā many of which
have been led by President Trump. He has often referred to major news
organizations as āthe enemy of the people,ā and has had a particular
animus for CNN.
The report goes on to say that the CNN bomb package was addressed to
former Obama CIA director John Brennan (who is actually a commentator at
MSNBC, not CNN). The Times then adds, gratuitously, that
Brennan āis a harsh critic of Mr. Trump,ā who revoked Brennanās security
clearance āin what was seen as an act of retribution.ā There is plenty of media commentary at the moment about incivility, in the form of incendiary rhetoric and actions.
This is entirely appropriate. But Iām at a loss to understand how the climate is improved by spicing up reports with thinly veiled suggestions that President Trump may have triggered a series of potentially murderous attacks on political opponents.
When Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson opened fire on the Republicans he targeted and nearly killed Representative Steve Scalise, I donāt recall much Times speculation about whether he could have been set him off by Democrats urging their supporters to get aggressive ā āget in their faceā; āif they bring a knife, we bring a gunā ā when dealing with political adversaries.
