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."
The Afghanistan Evacuation Didn’t Have To Be Hard. Biden Made It So. By Daniel Greenfield
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Jihad Watch : In
his latest address full of falsehoods, Joe Biden falsely claimed that,
“the evacuation of thousands of people from Kabul is going to be hard
and painful no matter when we started; when we began.”
The evacuation did not have to take place with thousands of Americans trapped behind Taliban lines.
It did not have to happen with the Taliban in control of Kabul and surrounding the airport. A withdrawal was possible along with an evacuation that did not take
place under these catastrophic circumstances. That’s entirely on Biden.
Biden keeps dishonestly pivoting away from the specifics to
generalities about the need for a withdrawal. The majority of Americans
agreed with a withdrawal. That doesn’t mean that they signed on the
dotted line for a disaster in which Americans end up in enemy territory. There was one single fault at issue here.
Any responsible country evacuates civilians before the military.
Biden chose to do it the wrong way around for a number of reasons. And
then he was slow to react when things began going wrong.
Had the United States evacuated all American civilians, the airport
would no doubt have been crowded with Afghans, but it would have been
possible to get Americans out. The fall of Kabul (and the surrender of
Bagram Air Base) left few options. Mostly bad ones. And Biden decided to
adopt the worst of them by outsourcing airport access to the Taliban. “I think, that history is going to record this was the logical, rational, and right decision to make,” Biden insisted.
I doubt anyone in history (even those Democrat historians who rank
Obama higher than George Washington) is going to look at these scenes
out of Kabul and claim that Biden’s decision to evacuate the military
before civilians was logical, rational, or right.
