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 : A vile anti-Semite and spreader of blood libels lurks the halls of Congress -- while her own party remains silent.
In January 2020, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mi) retweeted an
unverified tweet by professional agitator and former Palestinian
Authority diplomat Hanan Ashrawi, in which she claimed that Jews had
kidnapped and killed a Palestinian boy by throwing him into a pond where
he drowned. As it turns out, the boy’s death was accidental and Israeli
rescue teams resorted to superhuman efforts to retrieve the boy from
the pond’s cold, murky waters and revive him.
Ashrawi deleted her tweet and surprisingly apologized for citing unverified sources. Tlaib on the other hand deleted
the tweet but without apology. She was quick to accuse the Jews of
committing barbaric acts but offered no contrition when those
accusations proved unfounded. Even the ADL’s left-leaning head, Jonathan
Greenblatt, pointed out
that her lie was an “example of how a blood libel works in 2020;
retweets [sic] a vicious lie steeped in centuries-old accusations used
to demonize Jews, then says nothing when it's disproven. An apology is
overdue.” Of course, none was forthcoming.
It appears that Tlaib did not learn her lesson concerning her
propensity to engage in hasty conclusions and antisemitic blood libels.
On May 11, Israeli forces carrying out a counterterror operation in the
Jenin vicinity encountered violent resistance from Palestinian gunman
belonging to various terror entities. They came under heavy M-16
automatic fire. This is the weapon of choice for these gunmen, though
some also carry AK-47 assault rifles and Carlo-type submachine guns.
During the exchange of fire between the gunmen and the IDF, a veteran
Al-Jazeera reporter, Shireen Abu Akleh, was killed. She was wearing a
helmet and a bullet-proof vest but was in close proximity to the
fighting.
