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."
At the Freedom Center’s Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach,
Florida on November 17, 2019, I unveiled the duplicity and deception at
the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process” and explained,
among other things, why Anwar Sadat should not be revered as a man of
peace.
Transcript:
Thank you very much. I thought by way of transition I would tell all
of you that I wouldn’t be here tonight, today, if it were not for Peter
Collier. In the ‘90s, well actually going back further, in the early
‘80s, I worked at Revolution Books, which was the bookstore of the
Revolutionary Communist party, and I was very hardcore leftist. And
along the course of things, I read Destructive Generation,
which had an explosive effect on me, as it had on so many people.
Then
some years later, I was working as an ad writer, a copywriter and
ghostwriter, who read the Qur’an for fun, and after 9/11, was asked to
write a book by somebody who knew me and I worked with — to write a book
explaining what had happened and why. And I said, “Well, I’m nobody.
Why would anybody pay attention to what I think about any of this?,” and
the guy said, “Just write it, and if it’s quality work and if it
explains the material, then I will get somebody to publish it,” and, of
course, the person he got to publish it was Peter Collier.