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 : Mohamed Noor’s father is enraged that this sentence is so long, but
it is actually a very light sentence for killing a human being, and
reflects Mohamed Noor’s privilege as a Somali Muslim migrant in
Minneapolis.
He was the first Somali Muslim on the Minneapolis police
force. In 2016, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges expressed her excitement
about that fact: “I want to take a moment to recognize Officer Mohamed
Noor, the newest Somali officer in the Minneapolis Police Department.
Officer Noor has been assigned to the 5th Precinct, where his arrival
has been highly celebrated, particularly by the Somali community in and
around Karmel Mall.”
Hodges wasn’t excited because Mohamed Noor had the skills necessary
to become a fine police officer. She was only excited because he
represented a religious and ethnic group that she was anxious to court.
And it became increasingly clear — as we learned about Mohamed Noor’s
nervousness and jumpiness and lack of respect for women, and from his
own account of events that he relayed to friends (that he was “startled”
and reacted by opening fire) — that Mohamed Noor was not cut out to be a
policeman. He did not have the temperament for it, and if he hadn’t
killed Justine Ruszczyk Damond, he would likely have done something
similar at some point.
Mohamed Noor was not competent to be a police officer. If he had not
been a Somali and a Muslim, he never would have been on the force at
all. Identity politics kills. If there was any lesson to be drawn from
the killing of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, that was it. The city of
Minneapolis was so eager to have a Somali Muslim police officer on the
force that it hired a man who had been found incompetent to hold the
job. Even worse, Minneapolis officials did not fire him even when he
proved that he was indeed unfit to be a cop. “Minneapolis cop gets nearly 5 years in killing of 911 caller,” by Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti, Associated Press, October 20, 2021:
