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."
Malaysiakini : “The racist policies of Bersatu are a product of a bygone political era that should not be in use anymore. Such tactics will be rejected by progressive urban voters." - DAP Youth political education director, Chiong Yoke Kong (2016).
COMMENT | It took guts for DAP state assemblyperson Ronnie Liu to write about
the Bersatu grand poobah Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Cajones is something
lacking in DAP these days. The party has decided that questioning a
prime minister and policy failure is something which sabotages Pakatan
Harapan. Liu has had to declare his love for Harapan which further
advances the narrative that DAP is the new MCA.
DAP national organising secretary Anthony Loke in condemning Liu's
statements claimed that these were Liu's “personal" views and were not
the stand of the party. Furthermore, he characterised Liu’s statements
as “an act of sabotage to destabilise and disrupt the harmony of the
(Harapan) coalition”.
The boy minister Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman has since threatened to declare open season on DAP, PAS wants the DAP outlawed
and Loke seriously thinks that Ronnie’s statement, a sentiment shared
by many supporters, is an act of sabotage? This should really tell
partisans how the powerbrokers in DAP think.