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."
BCF : The Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas have again shown that peace
with Israel is not only extremely ill-advised and most likely doomed
from the start but critically dangerous as well.
The two Palestinian
parties, both the PA and Hamas, do not want Palestinians to engage in
any real estate transactions with Israeli Jews; they also do not want
Palestinians to assist Israel in the war on terrorism.
By opposing the sale of properties to Israeli Jews and
“collaboration” with Israel, the PA and Hamas are sending a message to
the Palestinian public that despite all the talk about a “two-state
solution” and the possible resumption of the “peace process,” Israel
remains the mortal enemy of the Palestinians.
This message does not bode well for the Biden administration's desire to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by establishing an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. Two Palestinian court sentences passed on October 17 provide concrete
evidence of how the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip
continue to regard Israel and Jews as an eternal foe. In the first case, a PA court in Bethlehem sentenced two Palestinian men to 15 years in prison with hard labor for attempting to sell land to Israeli Jews.
The verdict was published by the PA's official news agency Wafa;
Judge Jamal Shadid reportedly presided over the court. The agency did
not identify the defendants by name. It said that they were convicted of
attempting to "cut off a part of the Palestinian lands in order to
annex it to a foreign country" -- the code used by the PA to describe
real estate transactions between Palestinians and Israeli Jews.
