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."
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has been heavily criticized for
apparently trivializing the 9/11 jihad attacks when she characterized
them as “some people did something.” However, in a recent interview (with Al Jazeera, which is as anti-Semitic as she is),
Omar revealed what was really important to her about those attacks, in
which 3,000 Americans were killed: she wanted to make sure that in light
of them, no one thought ill of Islam or blamed all Muslims: “What is
important,” she said, “is the larger point that I was speaking to, which
is about making sure that blame isn’t placed on a whole faith, that we
as Muslims are not collectively blamed for the actions of terrorists,”
Omar added.
We hear this often: jihad
terror attacks are committed only by a minuscule fringe of the global
Islamic community, and so it is of paramount importance that we not
point fingers at Muslims in the aggregate, or at Islam itself, as if
they were responsible for those attacks.
And of course it’s true. No one
should ever be held responsible for something which with he or she had
nothing to do, and no one should blame innocent Muslims for the actions
of terrorists. Everyone takes that for granted. But Ilhan Omar’s words
to Al Jazeera only obfuscate the fact that jihad terrorists are indeed
galvanized by teachings of Islam that mandate everlasting war against
the infidel.
