Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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 : In all the attention being paid to the debacle in Afghanistan, many
have overlooked the Talibanās beginnings in Pakistan, and the loyal
support from Pakistan given the terrorist group right up until todayās
triumph. A report is here: āAs Taliban conquer Afghanistan, time to
sanction Pakistan,ā by Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, August 20, 2021:
As Taliban insurgents swept through Afghanistan
this month on their brutal quest to return that country to the seventh
century, ceremonies were held in neighboring Pakistan to commemorate the
6th anniversary of the death of a man dubbed āthe father of the
Taliban.ā
Gen. Hamid Gul, who died in 2015, was the former head of
Pakistanās terror-soaked spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence
(ISI). Much of his career was spent fighting the Soviet occupation of
Afghanistan in the 1980s when the ISI worked closely with the American
CIA. With the collapse of the Soviet occupation, swiftly followed by the
collapse of the actual Soviet Union, the ISI began backing Islamist
groups across the region, from Kashmir to Afghanistan, where the Taliban
first came to power in 1996, about two years after they were fostered
by the ISIās secret Directorate āSā with funding, weapons, and military
training.
