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 : Uninformed savants across the political spectrum have pilloried President Trump for his eminently rational decision to draw down the U.S. troop commitment (initially, only 25, as it turns out!) to the Syrian morass (whose “dynamic” has remained largely unchanged since the late 1940s).
Most of the ire directed at Mr. Trump has to do with hand-wringing over our “Kurdish allies,” even after the President warned Turkey not to engage in its habitual behaviors — since Ataturk created his ethno-racist state
— towards the Kurds. Regardless, here are a few salient points one
should bear in mind about the Kurds which the hand-wringers conveniently
ignore in their hagiographies:
— Kurdish predatory mass killings of Christians and Yazidis are
well-characterized and went on for centuries. Grinding persecution
continues to this day, as can be gleaned from detailed reports by both
Assyrian and Yazidi organizations (here; here; here)
— Kurdish “region(s)” were ethnically cleansed of Jews by the late 19th/early 20th
centuries in a series a pogroms, compounded by constant grinding
persecution including enslavement of Jewish families handed over between
generations of Kurds as “family property” (p. 658; p. 108)
— The Kurds of Turkey, brutally oppressed (here) by Ataturk’s ugly ethno-racist Turkish supremacist state (here), since the 1920s, ongoing, evolved their own brutal (here)
Marxist terror organization, the PKK, to combat this oppression. Those
Marxist PKK elements are the fighting backbone of the Syrian Kurds whom
the U.S. is now claimed to be “abandoning”
— Kurds of Iraqi “Kurdistan” have enshrined the Sharia (“This
Constitution confirms and respects the Islamic identity of the majority
of the people of Iraqi Kurdistan. It considers the principles of
Islamic Sharia as one of the main sources of legislation… It is not
allowed to enact a law inconsistent with the provisions of the
fundamentals of Islam,” Articles 6 & 7) and even apply it to Kurdish conscientious objectors to Islam who escape their Kurdish Muslim paradise and flee to the West. (here; here) — 50% of Kurdistan’s women undergo FGM, sanctioned by the Sharia
Johny Messo is head of the World Council of Arameans. In 2014 Messo issued this statement when Israel’s
Minister of Interior, H.E. Gideon Sa‘ar, signed a document that
recognizes “Aramean” as a distinct national identity in Israel’s
population registry:
We greatly commend Israel for being the first state in the world
to recognize our people in keeping with international law. This
fantastic news has had a major impact on the global Aramean population.
It encourages us to continue our legal struggle for recognition by our
home countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon”
Messo, was quoted from this story published today (10/10/19) from about the depredations and duplicity of the Kurdish Marxist brigades operating within Northern Syria:
“The PYD/YPG is threatening Syriacs and still forcibly detaining
some children to join them,” Johny Messo, head of the World Council of
Arameans (Syriacs), told Anadolu Agency on Thursday. Telling how the
terrorist PYD/YPG fought other terrorist groups only to pursue its own
territorial aims, he explained: “The aim of the PYD/YPG in its
struggle against Daesh was to seize their territories and integrate them
as part of the autonomous Kurdish region envisaged by them.”
The U.S. had enlisted the PYD/YPG to fight Daesh, while Turkey objected
that using one terror group to fight another makes no sense. Messo
said the PYD/YPG and Daesh are both terror groups, differing only in
aims, and sometimes even working together. “For example, the BBC showed
that the PYD/YPG signed an agreement with Daesh.
And, according to our
own sources, the PYD/YPG took former Daesh members with them,” he added. Messo said it is the PYD/YPG — the Syrian branch of the [MARXIST] terrorist PKK….
