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."
Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi claimed Shakespeare was Arab, while
University of Sussex professor and dean Matthew Dimmock says no Islam,
no Shakespeare.
Middle East Forum : Pity the Bard of Avon. William Shakespeare has long been the subject
of conspiracy theories, including some emanating from the Muslim world.
Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi claimed in 1989 that Shakespeare was an Arab whose real name was "Sheikh Zabir." Turkish conspiracy theorist Kadir Mısıroğlu made news
in 2016 by claiming that "Shakespeare was not English and his original
name is 'Sheikh Pir.' Even more, he was a secret Muslim."
The latest salvo from the grassy knoll of literary criticism came last month from TRT World
— an Ankara-based Islamist outlet controlled by Turkish strongman Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) — in an article by
Nadia Khan declaring absurdly that "there would have been no
Shakespeare were it not for Islam."
If Islam truly were central to Shakespeare's thought and work, one might
expect the word "Islam" to appear somewhere in his oeuvre. It does not.
Nor does "Alcoran" (the spelling in Shakespeare's day),
or any other variant of "Koran." In all the plays, there is a single
reference to "Mahomet." There are 25 references to "Jesus/Jesu," nine
references to "Christ," and 796 references to "God," but no references
to "Allah."
