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."
Muslim cleric convicted of inciting murders and arming a hit squad
Wednesday, September 08, 2021
Ahmad Al Assir
Jihad Watch : Why didnāt the Qurāanās peaceful teachings that are so obvious to every
Western non-Muslim politician elude the attention of Ahmad Al Assir, a
man who has devoted his life to understanding Islam properly? āLebanon: Extremist cleric sentenced to 20 years of hard labour,ā by Aya Iskandarani, The National, August 31, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Hardline Sunni cleric Ahmad Al Assir has been sentenced
to 20 years of hard labour by Lebanonās Military Court on Monday, eight
years after deadly clashes between his supporters and the army in the
southern city of Sidon threatened to spill into sectarian conflict,
state media said. Al Assir was convicted for his involvement in a 2014 attack in north
Lebanon that killed two Lebanese soldiers, arming the hit squad that
carried it out and inciting the killings, the National News Agency said.
The military court stripped Al Assir of his civil rights and fined
him 51 million Lebanese pounds ($124,000 at the official exchange rate
but $2,684 at the current market rate). He was sentenced to death in 2017 for inciting attacks on the army in 2013. An appeal against the sentence is pending.
Al Assir gained prominence after the onset of the Syrian civil war in
2011 for supporting Syrian rebels and speaking out against Shiite
Hezbollah and its involvement in the conflict. Clashes between his
supporters and the army sparked fears of Syriaās war spilling into
sectarian battles in Lebanon.
He accused Hezbollah of instigating the
fightingā¦.
