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."
Operation Paperclip: How the USA helped Nazi criminals from WWII evade justice to advance its own military ambitions
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Nazi scientists recruited by the USA pose at Fort Bliss, Texas, image via Twitter
US President Truman had in September 1946 officially approved Operation
Paperclip, in secret, and had expanded it to include over 1000 Nazi
scientists. Later reports and documents have revealed that over 1600
Nazi scientists were brought in, their crimes were whitewashed and they
were given a new life to work for the US government.
āNazisā, a story of deceit and cunning lies buried. The history of
World War II is a testimony of how one ideology, sold with high doses of
ultra-nationalistic, racist opium, caused one of the largest genocides
of history. The Nazis were defeated, and stripped from power by the
collective forces of the Western world, but did the ideology really die?
While the USA has made a lot of movies and written a lot of stories
on how it defeated Nazism and rescued the world from the evil called
Hitler, in reality, their actions after the war were a little less
glorious. After defeating the Nazis in Germany, the USA went to great
lengths to bring some of the most prominent Nazis home and spent a
considerable amount of money and efforts to rehabilitate them, because
they wanted the Nazisā weapons and their skills. The secret US
government operation that carried out this task was named āOperation
Paperclipā.
American journalist Annie Jacobsen in her book āOperation Paperclipā
has mentioned that not one or two, not 10 or 12, but as many as 1600 of
Hitlerās best scientific and technological minds were brought to the
USA under the secret program.
