7th Rangers: The Guardian is wrong: jihadis are still the biggest terrorism threat - Left-wing publications are inflating the risk of far-Right extremism By Simon Cottee
Fighting Seventh
The Fighting Rangers On War, Politics and Burning Issues
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 Guardian is wrong: jihadis are still the biggest terrorism threat - Left-wing publications are inflating the risk of far-Right extremism By Simon Cottee
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Unheard : Earlier this week, the Guardian ran a report
on the government’s counter-terrorism programme, the Prevent strategy,
titled “Anti-terrorism programme must keep focus on far right, say
experts”.
It was based on experts’ concern over the anticipated
direction of the strategy review, which, according to leaked documents,
reportedly recommends “a crackdown on Islamist extremism rather than the
threat of the far right”.
The expert deferred to in the Guardian
article on Prevent is called Lewys Brace, who apparently advises the
government on extremism. Brace, who I’ve never heard of, said that
Shawcross’s anticipated recommendations did not “reflect what’s going on
at all, in any way. Mixed ideologies is where it’s all heading.”
The article then makes a perfunctory
reference to the Manchester Arena attack, where Salman Abedi, an
ISIS-inspired suicide bomber, murdered 22 people. On Sunday, events were
held throughout Manchester to honour the memory of those who were
killed and injured in that atrocity exactly five years ago. It then goes
on to state that “since then, experts say, the terrorism landscape has
evolved significantly,” as was illustrated by the Plymouth shooting.
