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 : Assorted historians with a penchant for Indian history have often
romanticized the idea of Mughal supremacy.
For the longest time, the
average Indian was fed fallacies regarding the greatness of this line of
invaders, and was conditioned to believe that no greater ruler than the
Mughals had ever ruled over his land. Lately, the illustrious stories
of Mughal grandeur have been exposed as nothing but the figments of a
lazy mind’s twisted imagination, and most Indians have awakened to the
hollowness of these stories.
However, there is one segment of Indian society that still considers
the Mughals to be the best thing to have happened to India since
antiquity. A Muslim movie director from the Indian film industry
recently claimed that the Mughals were the “original nation builders.”
That is quite an ambitious title to be bestowed upon those whose reign
was marked by destruction, plunder, mass slaughter and rape. Contrary to
being a “nation builder,” the first Mughal emperor was infamous for
razing the historic Ram Mandir in Ayodhya in the 16th century, and
erecting a mosque, the Babri Masjid, over its ruins.
