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."
During their now-infamous phone call on July 23, Afghanistan’s then-President Ashraf Ghani told Old
Joe Biden: “Mr. President, we are facing a full-scale invasion,
composed of Taliban, full Pakistani planning and logistical support, and
at least 10-15,000 international terrorists, predominantly Pakistanis
thrown into this, so that dimension needs to be taken account of.” The
Pakistani “dimension” was never taken care of, despite the fact that
Pakistan has now become, as Richard Fernandez noted in mid-August, “a Chinese client state.” According to a Politico report Thursday,
Biden’s handlers, as clueless and incompetent as ever, are now “quietly
pressing Pakistan to cooperate on fighting terrorist groups such as
ISIS-K and Al Qaeda in the wake of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.”
As absurd as it is for Biden’s handlers to continue to regard
Pakistan as an ally, they aren’t even close to being the first American
officials to be played for fools by the sharpies in Islamabad. As far
back as 2008, the New York Timesreported that
during a battle with the Taliban near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, “
the Americans started calling in airstrikes on the Pakistanis after the
latter started shooting at the Americans.” A villager who saw it all
recounted: “When the Americans started bombing the Taliban, the
[Pakistani] Frontier Corps started shooting at the Americans. They were
trying to help the Taliban. And then the American planes bombed the
Pakistani post.”
The bombing caused friction between the two countries, as Pakistan
was supposed to be our ally in the War on Terror, but it didn’t start
acting like an ally after that, either. The Pakistani government
received billions to fight jihad terror and continued to do so even
after the 2008 Times story revealed that many Pakistani
officials were “assuring the United States that they were vigorously
repressing Islamic militants — and in some cases actually doing so —
while simultaneously tolerating and assisting the same militants.”
The most notorious example of this double game was the fact that
Osama bin Laden lived peacefully for years in Abbottabad down the street
from Pakistan’s leading military academy, Kakul Military Academy.
American officials even during the Obama years were so distrustful of
Pakistan that they didn’t brief them on the mission to kill bin Laden,
to the enduring rage of Pakistani officials.
Despite all that and more, however, the Politico report states that
in response to Biden’s handlers’ desire that it help fight ISIS-K and
al-Qaeda, Pakistani authorities have “hinted that Islamabad deserves
more public recognition of its role in helping people now fleeing
Afghanistan, even as it has downplayed fears of what Taliban rule of the
country could mean.”
