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."
Leftist Iowa Congresswoman Mocks Christians for Having ‘Weaponized Religion,’ Dons Hijab to Visit Mosque
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Cindy Axne with Demented Joe
Robert Spencer - New in PJ Media: Cindy Axne is the only Democrat in Iowa’s Congressional delegation,
and she may not hold that distinction much longer; in 2020, she was
reelected with only 48.9% of the vote, down from 49.3% in 2018.
If
November 2022 turns out to be the red wave that nearly everyone is
expecting, and given how sharply her values diverge from those most
Iowans, Cindy Axne will be back in West Des Moines looking for work. It
couldn’t come a moment too soon. Axne, who has mocked her Christian
constituents, recently put on that most visible sign of the oppression
of women, a hijab, to visit an Islamic center in Des Moines. The Left
has a favorite religion, and it certainly isn’t Christianity.
Breitbart reported Wednesday that Axne, “last September, was caught on a recording during an appearance with a far-left activist
group from New York, Markers For Democracy, where she discussed
her party’s response to the coronavirus pandemic when she made
vulgar comments about her constituents of the Christian faith.” Iowa is
77% Christian.
Axne sounded as if she would be much more at home on the Left Coast
than in flyover country when she said: “So now all the schools are back
wanting to put mask mandates in, and all of the anti-vaxxer crazies are
out there with their – it’s a hot mess. I’ll be honest, Christian right,
everything under the guise while they hold a cross for God or whatever.
They use it like a weapon, and it’s painful to watch because they’ve
weaponized religion, they’ve weaponized politics.”
Axne, who says she is a Roman Catholic, doesn’t have a similarly dim
view of Muslims, however, despite the fact that some Muslims have shown
themselves to be unrivalled masters of weaponizing religion. On Monday,
Axne posted this on Facebook: “I visited the Islamic and Cultural Center Bosniak of Des Moines for
an Iftar meal and to meet with members of es-Selam Mosque. I left with
my arms full of delicious leftovers and a deep sense of pride in the
diversity that makes Iowa such a rich community. Thank you for the warm
welcome and I look forward to my next visit!”
There’s that word again: diversity. The Left loves it, of course, and
demands that we celebrate it at every opportunity, and yet Leftists
make it clear that the diversity that they so prize, and so
energetically push upon the rest of us, doesn’t include the largest
racial group in the country, or the largest religion. Axne’s open
contempt for those who “hold a cross for God” and warm embrace of Des
Moines-area Muslims is of a piece with the general contempt that the
Left has for what has been the dominant culture. The pulling-down of
statues of American heroes, including even Thomas Jefferson, is another manifestation of the same impulse. There is more.
