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."
The first I knew that something was up was yesterday afternoon on this post over at VladTepesBlog. And we might have seen it coming after CNN and the New York Times both defamed Jihad Watch
in the space of 48 hours. We do get the occasional email from someone
who can’t get to the site. Sometimes it’s just some transient technical
error, and sometimes it’s us intentionally blocking them because they
have malware or a bad reputation for malicious activity. We subscribe to
Alienvault, and we can correct that if needed.
But this was different.
This NXDOMAIN error is very specific. It means that a DNS A record
could not be found. A DNS A record is how a site — in this case www.jihadwatch.org
— is found on the Internet; it is similar to how a post/zip code is how
your address is found, or a phone number finds you on a phone. But it
should be impossible that Jihad Watch’s DNS A record could not be found:
Jihad Watch uses a cluster of enterprise DNS servers, and there were no
alerts of failures. So it looks as of these widespread failures of
people to reach the site is a result of an expansion of the censorship we saw a couple of years ago.
