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."
Bill Maher, Sam Harris Claim Biden’s Afghanistan Mess Is ‘Trumpian’
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Jihad Watch : My latest in PJ Media: Donald Trump hasn’t been president for eight months now, but some
Leftists had become so used to marinating in their Trump-hate over the
last four years that they just can’t let the Bad Orange Man go.
Over the
last few days, “comedian” Bill Maher and “intellectual” Sam Harris have
both gone out of their way to claim that the mess Old Joe Biden and his
handlers have made of Afghanistan is positively Trumpian in the sheer
grandeur of the catastrophe. If any sane people are left around Maher
and Harris, they might take them aside and quietly remind them that
Trump never presided over anything remotely resembling the disaster in
Afghanistan, but then again, if these high-profile Leftists were
interested in rational argumentation, they wouldn’t be Leftists in the
first place.
Maher said Friday of
Afghanistan: “This country crashed faster than a condominium in Miami.”
But he felt more sorrow than anger toward the man responsible, saying,
“I feel bad for Biden.” He did his best to
make it all Trump’s fault, or at least Trump-like: “The adults are back
in charge, the people who know what they’re doing, the Democrats, and
the pullout looks — I can’t think of how it could’ve been any different
if it was Trump. I mean, how could it be more f—ed up? How could it be
more incompetent? How could it be more Trumpian? So what do I say to
myself to get to sleep at night when the adults are back in charge and
they f— it up exactly as bad as Trump would?”
Maher may have gotten this idea from Harris, who tweeted Wednesday:
“Biden achieves near-Trumpian negligence here. But unlike Trump, whose
reputation among his fans was magically shielded from earthly damage,
Biden can’t get away with being a callous moron in an emergency—and he
shouldn’t. This is all just sickening.”
But seriously, what exactly did Trump handle as incompetently as
Biden’s handlers have handled Afghanistan? Certainly not Afghanistan
itself, where Trump wanted to withdraw but has stated since this debacle
began that he would have done so much more carefully, and with
conditions given to the Taliban to ensure a safe and orderly departure
for the Americans.
No doubt Maher and Harris and their ilk don’t believe
that he would have carried off the withdrawal with that much competence
and aplomb, but we’ll never know that. So what examples can they give
us of staggering incompetence during the Trump administration, as an
indication of how badly the America-First president might have
mishandled the departure from Afghanistan?
