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."
The genocide of the Yezidis has been forgotten By Zidan Ismail
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Yezidis
Robert Spencer : In the summer of 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) committed genocide of
the Yezidis in their largest city in Iraq and the world, Sinjar.
The Yezidis are a religious minority in the Middle East; their main
center is Iraq. At the time that the genocide began, their number was no
more than 550,000 people, according to the United Nations when it was
evaluating the crimes committed by ISIS against the Yezidis, which were
classified as genocide and crimes against humanity.
It seems clear that what happened at the time had a goal, namely to
wipe out the presence of the Yezidis. While it appeared initially that
the world had grasped the significance of these crimes, now the Yezidi
cause is largely being neglected amid the many crises and regional wars
around the world.
Iraq historically has been an area of great religious diversity; the
genocide of the Yezidis was one aspect of the Islamic State’s efforts to
destroy that. The captivity and rape of Yezidi women, using them as
commodities and even opening slave markets in the twenty-first century,
was not just mass exploitation and sexual assault; this type of attack
was used as a means of ethnic cleansing.
