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."
Jihad Watch : More treason from the post-American President. “Mattis: Obama Failed to Respond to Iran Bomb Plot on U.S. Soil Because of Nuclear Deal,” by Matt Margolis, PJ Media, September 5, 2019:
After the surprise resignation of Secretary of Defense
James Mattis last December, Democrats were quick to politicize the news,
and have certainly been hoping ever since that Mattis would provide
them with new information they could use to attack Donald Trump. He does
have a memoir coming out, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, but it looks like it’s Barack Obama and Joe Biden who get the bulk of the criticism.
The duty officer at his Tampa, Florida, headquarters on
Oct. 11, 2011 told him that the attorney general and FBI director had
held a press conference to announce the arrest of two Iranians who had
planned a bomb attack on Cafe Milano, a high-end restaurant in
Washington that was a favorite of the rich and famous, including Saudi
Arabia’s ambassador, Adel al-Jubeir.
As Mattis writes, “Attorney
General Eric Holder said the bombing plot was ‘directed and approved by
elements of the Iranian government and, specifically, senior members of
the Qods Force.’ The Qods were the Special Operations Force of the
Revolutionary Guards, reporting to the top of the Iranian government.”
Many pundits questioned the
administration’s assessment that the Iranian government was involved in
the plan. Despite Iran’s long history of overseas assassination plots,
some observers were skeptical that the theocratic regime would attempt
such an audacious attack. Mattis is certain, however: “I saw the intelligence: we had recorded Tehran’s approval of the operation.”
Mattis writes, “Had the bomb gone off, those in the restaurant and on
the street would have been ripped apart, blood rushing down sewer
drains. It would have been the worst attack on us since 9/11. I sensed
that only Iran’s impression of America’s impotence could have led them
to risk such an act within a couple of miles of the White House.
Absent
one fundamental mistake — the terrorists had engaged an undercover DEA
agent in an attempt to smuggle the bomb — the Iranians would have pulled
off this devastating attack. Had that bomb exploded, it would have
changed history.”…
