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 : My name is Rami Dabbas. I was born in 1989 in what is now the capital
of Kazakhstan, Astana, to a non-practicing Muslim Arab father and a
Russian mother. When I was three years old, we moved to Jordan, and I
was raised in a non-religious home.
Fast-forward to 2010. I was in my third year of university, studying
surveying and geomatics en route to a degree in civil engineering, when I
developed strong anti-Islamic feelings due to the spread of terrorism
around the world. I was only 20 years old. I started participating in
anti-Islamization groups with many thousands of followers in Europe and
the West.
It wasn’t long before I deemed myself completely secular, with
leanings toward atheism. I still suspected that God exists, but was by
then convinced that He wasn’t to be found in Islam. Those honest enough
to read the true history of Islam and its spread worldwide will find a
litany of violence, incitement, invasion, war crimes, slavery, genocide
and pedophilia.
So I looked elsewhere. There is a Buddhist meditation center in
Amman, but I found no peace there. It was during this time of seeking
that I even began to develop a phobia toward my own people, the Arabs. I
got in touch with Jewish religious centers, even attending an online
series of lectures in Kabala (Jewish mysticism), before one night having
a dream in which Jesus appeared.
