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."
BCF : Instead of attacking Orban, European progressives should fix their own countries.
The brutal death of a French Catholic priest last week is grimly symbolic of liberal Europe’s direction under its open-borders ideology.
The priest was beaten to death by a Rwandan immigrant to whom he had given shelter. The immigrant was a known threat to the French authorities: a year ago he had been arrested for trying to burn down the Cathedral of Nantes.
The French have become accustomed to these horrific stories in recent years. In 2020, a Tunisian immigrant beheaded a woman and killed two others at a church in the French city of Nice. In 2016, two jihadists slit the throat of a French priest, yelling “Allahu akbar” as they left the church.
European progressives, meanwhile,
prattle on about the supposed glories of open borders and cheer the
disappearance of Christian Europe. They fear not the rise of “Eurabia,”
but the few voices of “Christian nationalism” remaining on the
continent. Instead of fixing their own countries, they busy themselves
with plans to ostracize figures like Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime
minister. For not following the ruinous path of his progressive peers,
Orban has been denounced as “repressive.”
Tucker Carlson’s recent trip to Hungary occasioned yet another round of
Orban-bashing from the progressives. Even as their own countries
disintegrate, they obsess over the common-sense policies of tiny
Hungary. Even as they seek to build their own one-party states, they brand Orban an autocrat.
The spectacle of liberals
encouraging the spread of Islam in Europe is a very curious one. As
old-style liberals such as Christopher Hitchens and Orianna Fallaci used
to point out, Islam, from liberalism’s perspective, is a far more
illiberal religion than Christianity. Yet European progressives can
tolerate Islam while stamping out the dying embers of the continent’s
historic religion. They portray Orban as a threat to liberal European
values, but they are careful to exempt Islam from that critique. The
same European Union officials calling Orban a bigot would never dare
slap that label on Muslims.
The multiculturalist Europeans
love every culture except their own. They find Europe’s Christian roots
embarrassing. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI criticized the European Union
for ignoring the continent’s Christian foundations in its
50th-anniversary celebrations.
