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."
Jihad Watch : Linda Sarsour is back in the news. What nasty craziness, or crazy nastiness, is it this time that brings her, just as she intended, to our attention?
This
time it is for her straight-faced claim that Jesus was not a Jew, but a
ābrown-skinned Palestinian.ā Of course this isnāt her claim alone; itās
a staple of āPalestinianā propaganda. Ilhan Omar retweeted the same
claim ā āJesus was a Palestinianā ā on April 20, 2019. Palestinian and
other Arab propagandists have been saying the same thing for years.
This historical revisionism is of a piece with the Muslim rewriting of
American history to make it seem that, in Barack Obamaās counterfactual
claim, āMuslims have always been part of Americaās story.ā So we are
told, among other things, that Muslims served in the crews of
Columbusās ships, that Columbus reported spotting a mosque ā forsooth! ā
in Cuba, that one-third of the slaves brought to America were Muslim,
that Thomas Jefferson owned a Qurāan and became a deep admirer of Islam,
that he held the first Iftar Dinner, and so on, and so idiotically
forth. More details are here.
Thus, in this helter-skelter get-me-rewrite fashion for so much of
settled history, do Arab and Muslim propagandists appropriate part of
Jewish history to strengthen the Arab claim to Judea, or as they insist
on calling it, following the Romans who used a toponym that would efface
the Jewish connection to the land, āPalestine.ā Part of this
appropriation involves Jesus, who must be claimed as āPalestinianā if
the Arabs are ever to overcome the support for Israel of some
Christians, especially those Evangelical Christians.
This claim by
Sarsour, Omar, et al would come as quite a surprise to Mary and Joseph,
to John the Baptist, to Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, to Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John, to Christian theologians, Biblical scholars, and devout
Christians of the last 2000 years ā and, of course, to Jesus himself.
But the claim puts Sarsour back in the news, which she needs to do from
time to time to cause a momentary blip of interest, in order to keep the
donations flowing. Think of it as an āadvertisement for herself.ā As
for the violence done to history, Linda Sarsour, like her sister-in-arms
Ilhan Omar, doesnāt much care: āWe donāt need no stinkinā history.ā
