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 : My latest in PJ Media: The Biden White House has been doing everything it can think of to
turn the debacle in Afghanistan into a victory, or rather, something
that looks enough like a victory to allow the establishment media to run
with it and try to fool the rubes.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki
notoriously said (with
a straight face) on August 24 that the catastrophically mismanaged
evacuation operation could not be termed āanything but a success.ā On
Saturday, the appallingly woke Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, claimed (also with a straight face) that āthere was an extensive amount of planning in this.ā
Milley did admit that āthe collapse of the Afghan Army happened at a
much faster rate and very unexpected, by pretty much everybody, and then
with that is the collapse of the Afghan government. So, that was
definitely a surprise.ā Nevertheless, he insisted that āthere was an
awful lot of planning done, ROC [Rehearsal of Concept] drills,
rehearsals, etc.ā
They rehearsed this calamity? So Milley would have us
believe. āWhat you saw unfold with this noncombatant evacuation
operation,ā he asserted, āwas one of the contingency plans.ā Despite the
fact that Americans are still stranded in Afghanistan while Bidenās
handlers actually block efforts to
get them out, the woke general didnāt hesitate to boast: āAnd the speed
at which it was executed, the flow of the aircraft, we had planes
taking off every 30 to 45 minutes or so. We had ā we brought in 7,000 ā
or 6,000 U.S. troops, and then there [were] about a thousand or more or
so Afghan troops that secured HKIA [Hamid Karzai International Airport
in Kabul].ā
Not everything went swimmingly, mind you: āThe first day, it was
clearly chaotic, no question about it. You saw that on video, etc. But
within about 24 hours, that settled down and it became a much more
orderly process. The security of HKIA was challenging to say the least,
and we saw the bombing. But that would have happened no matter where it
was. People talk about Bagram, wherever thereās a perimeter, if thereās
no outside force, if thereās no Afghan force securing it, and there
wasnāt any, then thereās going to be U.S. forces on the perimeter, on
the edge. And they were doing what they were asked to do, which is go
out and screen and process people.ā
Wait a minute. āScreen and process peopleā? Yet Defense One reported
in late August that āsecurity screeners at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar
have detected that at least one of the Afghans who was evacuated from
Kabul Airport has potential ties to ISIS.ā Even worse, āthe Defense
Departmentās Automated Biometric Identification System has flagged up to
100 of the 7,000 Afghans evacuated as prospective recipients of Special
Immigration Visas as potential matches to intelligence agency watch
lists.ā There is more.