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."
DC: Muslim researcher complains that war on terror was “rooted in Islamophobia” and “exclusively targeted Muslims”
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Maha Hilal
Jihad Watch : “The goal is to really underscore how the war on terror is so rooted
in Islamophobia and to really lift up the story of the ways that Muslims
have been impacted.”
The irony here is that for the most part, the “war on terror”
scrupulously avoided even the appearance of “Islamophobia” by
dissembling about and deflecting from the motivating ideology that
underlay the 9/11 jihad attacks.
The Obama administration’s entire
counterterror program, for example, was called Countering Violent
Extremism, and never mention Islam or jihad in the context of terrorism
at all. Bush, Obama and numerous other American officials repeatedly
denied that Islam was anything but peaceful. But now Maha Hilal is here
to tell us that the war on terror was “rooted in Islamophobia.” Pull my
other leg.
“We hope this visual representation will help people understand the war on terror has almost exclusively targeted Muslims.” We hope there are some sane people somewhere who will remember that
9/11 and the 35,000 jihad attacks worldwide since then almost
exclusively targeted non-Muslims and Muslims who were considered to
belong to the wrong sect.
“Every single time I read one of the event’s descriptions, I would
just be horrified….it was so grim … it was difficult to read about these
things that were happening to my people…” For a second I thought she was referring to the 9/11 attacks. “Visual timeline project traces ‘underlying Islamophobia’ in war on terror,” by Aysha Khan, Religion News Service, September 11, 2019 :
