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."
Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict ‘has all the markings of an ongoing Christian genocide’
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Shushi’s Holy Savior Cathedral
Jihad Watch : The world yawns. This doesn’t fit the establishment media narrative, which holds that Muslims are always victims and Christians always aggressors, and so down the memory hole it will go.
“Experts: Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Is Christian Genocide Under the Pretext of War,” by Victor Gaetan, National Catholic Register, November 16, 2020:
Under the cover of a global pandemic, benefiting from
U.S. self-absorption during the presidential election, a battle that
raged for 44 days against a compact community of Armenians — some
150,000 people territorially enclosed by Azerbaijan — has ended. The region under siege is widely known as Nagorno-Karabakh, but its citizens voted to call it the Republic of Artsakh in 2017.
Describing it as an “unspeakably painful agreement,”
Armenia’s prime minister signed a peace deal Nov. 9 with the aggressor,
Azerbaijan. In Yerevan, Armenia’s capital, people responded by rioting in Parliament, while people danced in the streets in Baku, Azerbaijan’s seaside capital…
To educated observers and the victims themselves, this year’s
aggression has all the markings of an ongoing Christian genocide:
initiated by Ottoman Turks in 1895; intensified by the Young Turk Movement between 1915 and 1923; continued against Greeks in the 1950s; and now reignited as part of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s dream of restoring Ottoman power and territory. Evidence of genocide is especially petrifying to the Armenians
because it suggests Azerbaijan and Turkey will not stop until they’ve
“cleansed” this cradle of Christianity of its indigenous people.
Proof of the connection is startlingly overt: When Azerbaijan dropped a bomb on Oct. 8 through the dome of Shushi’s Holy Savior Cathedral (known to Armenians as Ghazanchetsots), one of the largest Armenian churches in the world, they targeted a sacred place damaged
in the notorious 1920 attack when Azerbaijani soldiers set the Armenian
half of the town on fire, killing, raping and driving out its
inhabitants. This past is hidden, and the intentional obliteration of Armenia’s Christian culture denied, by the powerful family that has controlled Azerbaijan for two generations, the Aliyevs….
Asked about Turkey’s motives, American Enterprise Institute defense
analyst Michael Rubin is blunt: “primarily, animus toward Armenians as a
people and Christianity as a religion.” Rubin told an IDF news conference that Erdogan has no historical
claim to Artsakh and no security excuse for fomenting war. Besides being
anti-Christian, his motives are political and nationalistic: “Turkey is
on the warpath, and it will get worse as Erdogan deflects attention
from his failing economy and nears the anniversary of the Turkish
republic” founded in 1923.
Aram Hamparian, executive director of the Armenian National Committee
of America, summarized, “What’s at stake here is Erdogan trying to
finish the work of 1915.” Recounting the Armenian peoples’ losses at Turkey’s hands as
“two-thirds of our people and nine-tenths of our territory,” Hamparian
reframed the current situation in the South Caucasus as “not a conflict
but a crime,” requiring a swift response from the West.
A representative of the Greek American community agreed. “We’re
approaching the centennial of a republic built on the bones and blood of
Christian minorities.
Today, Artsakh is an inconvenience to Turkey’s
idea of dominance in the region,” said Endy Zemenides, executive
director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council.
