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."
This was utterly predictable in today’s atmosphere of leftist insanity, but it’s appalling nonetheless. As the sage Joe Biden would say,
Look, Fat, look, here’s the deal: I’ve been warning for years that it
would sooner or later become “Islamophobic” to offer even the mildest
opposition to jihad violence and that the “Islamophobia” mongers would
become increasingly open about their support for jihad terrorists, and
here we are. On Thursday, 174 Democrats in the House of Representatives
voted against an amendment to the Rights for Transportation Security
Officers Act that would prevent the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) from hiring convicted terrorists.
Yes, that’s right: if these
House Democrats had gotten their way, on your next flight, you could
have gotten a pat-down from a TSA agent who previously conspired to down
the airplane you were planning to fly on. House Minority Leader Kevin
McCarthy (R., Calif.) explained
that the amendment “was pulled back by leadership because the socialist
wing of the party did not want to have that amendment go forward on
this bill. When it was offered, overwhelmingly the majority of the House
would like to see the TSA not hire terrorists or those who have been
convicted of sexual misconduct with minors and others. But the socialist
wing of the party, that controls now the Democratic Party, said that
that could not be offered.”
However, as these prospective
TSA employees might have said, Allahu akbar! The whole thing exploded in
their faces: enough Republicans and renegade Democrats voted for the
amendment to pass it. But among the luminaries
who thought it so important to avoid even the appearance of
“Islamophobia” that they opposed an amendment barring terrorists from
pawing through your belongings as you made your way through security
were the infamous “Squad,” Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.),
Ilhan Omar (D, Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Ayanna Pressley
(D., Mass.), along with the supposedly sane and responsible House
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.).
The TSA has always been more
security theatre than actual security, but that’s beside the point here:
AOC, Omar, Tlaib, and the 171 other House Democrats who opposed this
measure didn’t vote against it because it would be ineffective, but
clearly because it would offend a key portion of their constituency,
which for most, if not all, Democrats today consists of people who
believe that terrorists are victims, that American imperialism is the
real problem, and that Donald Trump is “racist” for wanting to protect
Americans from jihad terror attacks by foreign nationals coming from the
countries included in his travel ban and from violent crimes by illegal
aliens coming into the country from Mexico. There is much more.
