Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
Raymond Ibrahim : As the most important U.S. presidential election draws nigh, whatāone
must ask in light of the spate of terror attacks in France and
elsewhereāare the two candidatesā positions on Islam?
Most recently, President Trump summarized both what his and a Biden presidency would entail during a rally in Butler, Pa., on October 31:
To protect our security I suspended the entry of foreign
refugees from terror afflicted nations. Biden has pledged a staggering
700 percent increase in refugees from the most violent terrorist
hotspots anywhere on earth. If you donāt mind, Iāll end that. And that
was the deal, the manifesto, that he agreed to with Bernie Sanders and
AOC+3 [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and three other female
āprogressiveā reps, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan,
and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts]ā¦
The Biden plan would overwhelm your communities ā¦ and open the
floodgates to radical Islamic terrorism. Call France; ask them how are
they doing? You saw whatās happening there, and whatās happening is a
disgraceā¦. So, if you donāt mind, weāll take a pass, ok? You know I
passed the ban, right, the ban, and everyone said āwhat a terrible
thing,ā and we won at the Supreme Court, and now we keep people out who
canāt love our country, people that want to hurt people. We want them
out and we will keep them out. We are keeping the terrorists and the
jihadists ā¦ the hell out of our country.
Trump certainly seems to āget it.ā His interest in ākeep[ing] people
out who canāt love our countryā echoes another important assertion he
once made. Back in March 2016, during a CNN interview when Trump was a
Republican presidential candidate, he said: Read it all here.......................