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."
Jihad Watch : The LBC sycophant who wrote the article below, Seán Hickey, says that
the renowned moderate Muslim Maajid Nawaz “expertly debunks” the claim
that Islam is “naturally fundamentalist and violent.”
All right. Let’s examine Nawaz’s “expert” argument. He says that the claim is “dodgy.” He says that the claim “somehow
doesn’t stand up.” He claims, without offering any supporting evidence,
that “Islamism” arose “due to war and in fact it was used by us to stop
the Soviet Union.”
He dismisses the violent passages of the Qur’an not by explaining
how, properly understood, they’re not really violent at all, as others
have claimed, but by changing the subject and saying: “you can find
justification in the old testament and the new testament for all manner
of things.” He also echoes groups such as the Hamas-linked
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in suggesting that those
who highlight the violent passages of the Qur’an are just trying to make
money: “How ye choose and select and contextualise passages comes down,
usually to the own biases we carry, and sometimes we’re funded by those
biases.”
If that’s an expert debunking, I’m Chuck Schumer. Nawaz’s claim that
“Islamism,” by which he apparently means a form of Islam that takes the
Qur’an literally (i.e., is “fundamentalist”) and acts upon its
exhortations to violence, only arose with the U.S. aiding jihad groups
against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan is completely ahistorical. Nawaz
is either unfamiliar with Islam’s 1,400-year history of jihad violence,
or banking on his listeners being ignorant of it. Even throughout the
first part of the 20th century, before the Soviets invaded Afghanistan,
Muslims in Palestine waged jihad against the Jews.
It would be interesting to learn what Nawaz thinks of that, and of the
Islamic jihad rhetoric that flowed freely from Arab leaders in those
days, but of course no one among his sycophants at LBC is going to ask
him.
Then we come to the sleight of hand. The Old and New Testaments may
be the worst documents in the history of mankind, justifying, as Nawaz
says, “all manner of things,” and that wouldn’t tell us one single
solitary thing about the violent passages of the Qur’an. Nawaz’s caller
asserted that Islam was “naturally fundamentalist and violent.” What the
Old Testament and New Testament may be tells us absolutely nothing
about that question. Nawaz is just deflecting attention away from
inquiry into the actual contents of the Qur’an, and into the extent to
which Muslims who commit acts of violence are incited to do so by those
contents. Now, why would he want to do that?
“Maajid Nawaz expertly debunks theory that Islam is ‘inherently fundamentalist,'” by Seán Hickey, LBC, July 10, 2021:
