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."
MS:
"There needs to be a large-scale shake-up in MACC so confidence can be
restored and Malaysia's position in Transparency International's
Corruption Perception Index can be improved," said Bagan MP Lim Guan
Eng.
And after the shake-up, guess who will be appointed - more of the
same tainted ‘ketuanan’ breed which owes its loyalty to crooked
political masters and is protected by a board of ‘advisors’ serving as
proxies to self-serving politicians and their agendas.
No shake-up will work unless there is a fundamental shift away from the toxic and divisive ‘ketuanan’ ideology.
Then
we may see appointments made solely on merit and appointees who are
strictly apolitical, professional and directly answerable to a
parliamentary committee of carefully selected parliamentarians.
Then
maybe we could see an organisation which is truly multiracial with
built-in checks and balances and one whose performance is measured by
objective criteria.
But again, such an organisation cannot exist as an island in an ocean
of incompetence and corruption, which is the regime and its bloated,
bigoted civil service led by dubious characters who, for example,
collect RM30,000 a month for doing nothing.
Any
such shake-up has to be across the board, across all agencies. But
since that is not at all possible - not now, not ever - the country will
continue to sink under the rising tide of crookedness, sloth and
imbecility.