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."
Democratic Republic of Congo: Muslims murder nine civilians in two jihad attacks
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Jihad Watch : Good thing our law enforcement and intelligence agencies are focused on the “white supremacist” threat. “Nine killed in attacks in eastern DR Congo,” AFP, July 17, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Nine civilians were killed in the eastern Democratic
Republic of Congo by rebels with the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)
affiliated to the so-called Islamic State, military and local sources
said on Friday.
Kakule Kalunge, chief of the city of Kalunguta in the Beni region of
North Kivu told AFP that ADF fighters had shot five civilians, including
four men and one woman, overnight on Thursday. “Among those killed is
the president of the network of civilian organisations,” said Kakule.
“His death pushed other residents to leave the city.”…
On the same night further north in Irumu in the neighbouring province
of Ituri, another attack killed four people, army spokesman Jules
Ngongo told AFP….
The ADF began as an armed Ugandan Muslim group that implanted itself
in eastern DR Congo in 1995. It has not carried out any attacks in
Uganda itself for years and lives off extortion and control over the
region’s abundant resources. The Catholic Church in the DR Congo says
the ADF has massacred around 6,000 civilians since 2013, a toll that has
risen sharply since 2019, when the militia appears to have become more
radicalised.
In March, the United States officially linked the ADF to the IS and identified its leader as Seka Musa Baluku.
