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."
Can anyone trust what the PN government says? - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Not the Back Street Boys but the Back Door Charlatans
Malaysiakini : “Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a
spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen
in the ice of its own indifference.” - Franklin D Roosevelt
COMMENT
| Communications and Multimedia Minister Saifuddin Abdullah's claim
that the government does not manipulate or hide Covid-19 statistics is
the kind of claptrap that makes this government even less credible than
it already is.
What this government has done is make it impossible to accurately gauge the ravages of this pandemic.
Hospitals
are reminding healthcare frontliners not to talk outside school, the
state security apparatus is cracking down on healthcare workers for
causing mischief when all they are talking about is the dire situation
they are in, and of course, politicians from the Perikatan Nasional (PN)
regime are busy waging a very public war to retain power.
Nobody
has any idea, for instance, what the criteria are for states entering
Phase 2 or Phase 3, or whatever fancy term is used to demonstrate that a
particular state’s Covid-19 figures are decreasing.
Or how
states which do fulfil certain criteria but experience a resurgence will
deal with such numbers, beyond the federal government coming up with on
the fly strategies.
And forget about the ravages this pandemic
has wrought on the economy. When a high ranking member of the PN
government issues a public statement claiming that religion is placed
over the economic interests of Malaysians, how exactly can anyone have
faith that the government wants to get the economy back on track despite
the rosy prognostications of someone like Azmin Ali or the finance
minister?
This is why, when the current prime minister says that it is okay to raise the blue flag
– the colour of the ruling regime – but not the white and black flags,
what we are left with is a prime minister who only seems interested in
the self-preservation of his coalition and not the welfare of the
people.
