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."
Anti-Lims sentiment is red herring for DAP's genuine failings - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Malaysiakini : “The Party knows more about us than we know ourselves,’ the woman replied.”― John le Carré, 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'.
COMMENT | I have been receiving - for reasons unknown to me - all this literature about the “anti-Lims”
movement that seems to be consuming the DAP base and political elite.
No doubt, now that Perikatan Nasional seems to be staggering under the
weight of hubris, incompetence and disloyalty, the “Lims” can have a
moment of peace while the base turns its attention on the possible fall
of the PN regime. Or maybe not.
To be honest, I have no interest
in the internal politics of the DAP beyond the fact that its mono-ethnic
internal politics is the kind of politics that makes all this “Bangsa
Malaysia” propaganda more ludicrous. I guess while Anwar Ibrahim has to
look after PKR's Malay core, whoever is controlling the DAP has to look
after its “Chinese” core.
You could buy into this narrative that
whatever is wrong with the DAP is because of the "Lims". Honestly, we
could have a whole discussion on the dysfunction of the leadership of
the DAP under their influence, but we would be missing the bigger
picture and indulging in personality politics which is what poisons the
discourse.
