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."
Prime Minister Muhyiddin's emergency delusion - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, November 02, 2020
Malaysiakini : "Power is not a means; it is an end.” - George Orwell, 1984
COMMENT |
Kadir Jasin is right when he says that the prime minister’s continuing
obsession about declaring an emergency makes him look weak. Not
only does it make him look weak, it also is further evidence that a
fractured Malay uber alles government is an unstable proposition, and
any time political operatives make pacts with traitors, the end result
is a weakening of the Malay political establishment.
When
Umno that has a pedigree of autocratic rule distances itself from such a
gambit, you know that the current prime minister is scraping the bottom
of the political barrel. What exactly does the PN hope to achieve with
the emergency rule? Forget about the political ramifications of
such a move. What this would mean is that the state security apparatus
then takes centre stage in enforcing diktats from the state. Does the PN
government understand what this means or does the PN state assume that
emergency rule would not disrupt the normality of the economic and
social life of this country?