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."
BCF : Tariq Ramadan, the prominent former Oxford Islamic scholar charged in France with raping two women, has now had further allegations made against him, French judicial sources said Sunday.
The sources confirmed by AFP cite reports on Europe 1 radio and in Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper that a woman in her 50s had accused Swiss-born Ramadan, 56, of raping her along with a member of his staff when she went to interview the academic at a hotel in Lyon in May 2014.
The woman, who filed a criminal complaint in May 2019, also accused
Ramadan of issuing “threats or acts of intimidation” aimed at dissuading
her from reporting the alleged attack to the police, the judicial
sources added. Ramadan, grandson of Hassan Al Banna who founded the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt, denies any wrong doing and maintains his
innocence.
The married father of four was a professor at Oxford University until
he was forced to take leave when rape allegations surfaced at the
height of the “Me Too” movement in late 2017. He has previously denied charges he raped a disabled woman in 2009 and a feminist activist in 2012.
The academic was taken into custody in February 2018 and held for
nine months before being granted bail. Authorities in Switzerland are
also investigating him after receiving a rape complaint in that country.
