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."
Islamic Republic of Iran sent goons to kidnap Iranian freedom activist in NYC and take her back to Iran
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Masih Alinejad,
Jihad Watch : Meanwhile, they were sitting down with Bidenās handlers to demand the
end of sanctions. The mullahs know that there is nothing they can do
that will make Bidenās handlers not want to give them everything they
want.
āIranian Operatives Planned to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author, Prosecutors Say,ā by Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, July 13, 2021: An Iranian American journalist living in Brooklyn was the
target of an international kidnapping plot orchestrated by an Iranian
intelligence network, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
In an indictment unsealed in federal court in Manhattan, four
Iranians were charged with conspiring to kidnap the journalist and
author, Masih Alinejad, who has long been a staunch critic of the
Iranian government. Ms. Alinejad was not identified by prosecutors, but confirmed in an
interview that she was the intended target of the plot. Last year, Ms.
Alinejad wrote in a newspaper article that Iranian government officials
had unleashed a social media campaign calling for her abduction.
The four defendants all live in Iran, the prosecutors said,
identifying one of them, Alireza Shavaroghi Farahani, as an Iranian
intelligence official and the three others as āIranian intelligence
assets.ā A fifth defendant, accused of supporting the plot but not
participating in the kidnapping conspiracy, was arrested in California.
A federal indictment describes a plot that included attempts to lure
Ms. Alinejad to a third country to capture her and forcibly render her
to Iran. The intelligence official, Mr. Farahani, and his network used
private investigators to surveil, photograph and video record Ms.
Alinejad and members of her household in Brooklyn, the government said. The extensive surveillance that Mr. Farahaniās network procured
included the use of a live, high-definition video feed depicting Ms.
Alinejadās home, prosecutors said.
āThis is not some far-fetched movie plot,ā William F. Sweeney Jr.,
the head of the F.B.I.ās New York office, said in a statement. In a 2018 essay in The New York Times, Ms. Alinejad described her decision to leave Iran a decade earlier.
āAs a journalist in Iran, I often got into trouble exposing the
regimeās mismanagement and corruption until, eventually, my press pass
was revoked,ā she wrote.
āI was often threatened with arrest or worse
for writing articles critical of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ultimately, I was forced to flee my homeland in 2009.ā
