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."
The
institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular
humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple
price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Remember
Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig, the journalists who were kidnapped and
forced to convert to Islam — even though their conversions were
obviously coerced, their captors made them say that they were converting
freely, and the captors probably believed that themselves. After all,
the journos could have chosen to be killed instead. “Jewish prisoner in Turkey: ‘I fear for my life. They want me to convert to Islam,'” Arutz Sheva, April 16, 2021 5:53 PM.
“I cry and pray every day for a miracle,” Fabian Azoulay,
a French Jew, wrote to his family after being imprisoned in the Gerson
prison in Turkey for a drug offense. “I can not imagine myself here for
another 16 years and eight months.”
According to a report in Israel Hayom, Azoulay was sentenced in 2017
to 16 years and eight months in prison. His case has recently attracted
significant attention as his lawyers and family members push to have him
extradited to France.
Israel Hayom reports that Azoulay, 43, has been incarcerated for the
past four years. He is gay, and claims that he is harassed and
threatened both because of his sexual orientation and because of his
religion. He came to Turkey four years ago, like many Israelis do, for a
hair transplant. He bought GBL, a party drug, for $300, from a website
in Lithuania with delivery to his hotel in Turkey, and claimed he did
not know that its use was banned in the country. Turkish customs seized
the shipment and arrested the recipient…. “The situation is terrible,” one of his lawyers, Carol-Olivia
Montano, told France 24.
She said, “He is harassed by other prisoners
who tell him to convert to Islam and pray five times a day, as well as
because of his sexual orientation.”…
