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."
Turks irked as Lebanon’s Aoun says Ottoman occupation was marked by repression and injustice
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Michel Aoun goes off the reservation
Jihad Watch : Dhimmis learn the lesson quickly: if you complain about your lot, it
will go even worse for you. Islam mandates death for non-Muslim subjects
of the Islamic state who mention “something impermissible about Allah,
the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o11.10), and such laws are based upon passages in the Hadith and Sira, orders the murders of people who have insulted the faith.
Patronage, graft and nepotism were rampant in the Ottoman Empire. Landowners lived in Constantinople while collecting rent from properties in Lebanon, Syria, Macedonia, Rumelia, Crete and the Morea. The Ottomans swung between benign neglect and vicious vindictiveness in the administration of their colonies. It was government by decree and no one knew what the policy was from one day to the next.
Think this pisses the Turks off, just try mentioning something about Armenians…….or for that matter Aramaic Christians, or Kurds. Oh and theres this modern myth about how multicultural and tolerant the Ottoman Empire was. If you are even faintly entertaining that fraud, read up on your history.
Not only in the Lebanon was Islamic rule marked by injustice and repression.
The 700 years of Islamic rule in the greater and lesser parts of India weakened their Dharmic society irreparably ( read V.S. Naipaul “ India – a wounded civilisation “.
It is a miracle that their native society survived such a vicious onslaught.
And so the Turks are enraged as Michel Aoun goes off the reservation. “Tension between Lebanon and Turkey after Aoun statements,” ANSAmed, September 6, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
