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 : While Hamas fired 690 rockets at Israeli civilians during the recent
flare-up, Israel is careful to warn civilians away from its own targets.
As Hamas always places its warehouses of weapons, including rockets,
and its fighters, too, in the midst of civilian neighborhoods, and even
in the same buildings as civilians (including schools and hospitals)
Israel has perfected the technique known as “knock on the roof.”
This
refers to the IDF’s practice of dropping non-explosive or low-yield
devices on the roofs of targeted civilian homes or other buildings in
the Palestinian territories as a prior warning of imminent bombing
attacks to give the inhabitants time to flee the attack.The practice was
employed by the IDF during the 2008–2009 Gaza War, Operation Pillar of
Defense in 2012, and Operation Protective Edge in 2014 to target the
homes of police officers or Hamas political or military leaders.
But it
is also used for office buildings, schoolhouses, apartment houses.
Sometimes the residents are given a fifteen minute warming, sometimes
ten, sometimes five, sometimes 30 seconds. And sometimes, if the entire structure has been deemed to be full of
enemy fighters, there may be no “knock on the roof”at all. Apparently
that was what happened in the case of a building in the middle of a
civilian area where Hamas’s group of cyberattackers worked (and possibly
lived).
The Israeli intelligence services determined that there were no
civilians in the building, based on their recognition that
cyber-attackers are just as much soldiers as any soldier in uniform..
The Israelis gave no warning, and leveled much of the building. Hamas
has said nothing about the wiping out of its entire cyberattack
fighters; it would be too humiliating. No doubt it will eventually claim
that its cyberwarriors were located elsewhere, and remain unscathed.
