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."
California: Muslim tries to join ISIS, says he’d try again if acquitted, gets 20 years
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Bernard Augustine, 25
Robert Spencer : He might have had a better chance of being acquitted if he had worked
harder to fool the infidel authorities, telling them that he now
realized that ISIS was un-Islamic and all the other nonsense that we so
often hear from jihadis in court. And those infidel authorities are so
ignorant, and so very eager to be fooled. But Augustine was honest with
them, and will have a few years in prison at least to think about that
and work on his prison dawah. “California man who tried to join ISIS sentenced to 20 years: feds,” by Gabrielle Fonrouge, New York Post, April 7, 2022:
A California man who tried to join ISIS and
wanted to encourage more English speakers to be part of the terror
group was sentenced to 20 years behind bars, Brooklyn federal
prosecutors announced. Bernard Augustine, 25, represented himself
during his one-week trial in August and told jurors that if he was
acquitted, he’d try once again to join the terror group, prosecutors
said after his Wednesday sentencing….
Around the time Augustine
turned 18 while living in Keyes, a small rural community outside of
Modesto, he made plans to travel in February 2016 to Tunisia from San
Francisco with the goal of joining ISIS across the border in Libya. In
the months leading up to his trip, Augustine spent time watching ISIS
propaganda videos that glorified the terror group’s violence and
googling questions like “how to safely join ISIS,” prosecutors said.
The
wannabe terrorist also visited websites on the ISIS recruitment
process, including one titled: “How does a Westerner join ISIS? Is there
a recruitment or application process?” Augustine went through
with his February 2016 trip to Tunisia, but before he could cross the
border into Libya, he was detained for two years and then returned to
the US in 2018. During his trial, Augustine testified that he
still wanted to join ISIS and described videos of the group beheading
Syrian captives as “good” and “really cool.” He said he intended to help
the group by providing English-language voiceovers for their propaganda
videos.
Prosecutors asked him to confirm testimony he gave that
he “would do it all again and would go back today” if given the chance
and Augustine replied, “No, tomorrow, when they let me off.”…
