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."
“A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Turkish expansionism, set in motion by Erdoğan’s Islamist government”
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
The Wannabe Caliph, Erdogan
Jihad Watch : The Lausanne Treaty defined the borders of the secular Turkish
republic.
Throwing it out would herald a new Turkish expansionism. In February 2018, Erdoğan declared
his desire to reconquer the lands the Ottoman caliphate once ruled:
“Those who think that we have erased from our hearts the lands from
which we withdrew in tears a hundred years ago are wrong.
We say at
every opportunity we have that Syria, Iraq and other places in the
geography [map] in our hearts are no different from our own homeland. We
are struggling so that a foreign flag will not be waved anywhere where
adhan [Islamic call to prayer in mosques] is recited.
The things we have
done so far [pale in comparison to the] even greater attempts and
attacks [we are planning for] the coming days, inshallah [Allah
willing].” This is coming. “Erdoğan setting the stage for invalidating the Lausanne Treaty after Hagia Sophia move,” by Yavuz Baydar, Ahval News, July 26, 2020:
