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."
Merry Christmas in these days of the persecution of Christians
Wednesday, January 09, 2019
Jihad Watch : Merry Christmas to all Jihad Watchers who are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ today.
The question before us this Christmas, as it is every Christmas these
days, is whether or not Christians should be allowed to be Christian
and celebrate Christmas freely, without being brutalized or
discriminated against, if they live in Iran, or Iraq, or Egypt, or
Pakistan, or Nigeria, or Indonesia, or other Muslim countries, and
whether free people of all creeds and perspectives should defend their
right to do so.
In many countries today, Christians are being kidnapped, imprisoned,
wrongly arrested, beaten, and murdered — not because of anything they
have done, but because they have dared to have beliefs that are
considered blasphemous in authoritative Islam. We see this at Jihad Watch on a regular basis. We see jihadists attacking Christians with
unremitting fury.
We also see the world continuing to yawn and remain
indifferent as all this goes on, and weak and cowardly Christian leaders
saying that we must not talk about it for fear of “provoking” Muslims
and harming a chimerical and fruitless (at best) Muslim/Christian
“dialogue.” Those who dare anyway to speak out about the persecution of
Christians that the persecutors justify by invoking the Qur’an and
Sunnah are vilified, demonized, and silenced as “bigots” and
“Islamophobes.” Even some Christians do this to their fellow Christians
who speak unwelcome truths on these matters.
So here is something to remember this Christmas: if you are a free
human being, whether or not you are Christian, those Christians who are
being persecuted in Iran, and Iraq, and Indonesia, and Nigeria, and
Egypt, and Pakistan, and elsewhere in the Islamic world, are standing in
your place. The jihadis would just as soon attack you as well, and will
eventually if they get the chance. Remember that the Islamic jihad
program has you on its list. You may not be a Christian. You may not be a
Jew. You may not be a Hindu. You may not be a Buddhist. You may not
wish to pay attention to the jihad at all. But the jihad is universal,
and relentless. And you are on its list.
So this Christmas, may all of us whose conversion, subjugation, or
death is envisioned by the adherents of Sharia stand together. Let us
stand together as Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists,
secularists, what have you, and stand up against those who would kill us
or subject us to institutionalized discrimination and harassment (at
best) because they find our beliefs offensive.
