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."
India deploys Russian-made surface-to-air missiles on border with China By Christine Douglass-Williams
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Robert Spencer : Here we go again: more strategic global alliances are being made with
America’s enemies while America remains MIA (missing in action) under
its decrepit leader and a party determined to destroy America. This
time, India is buying surface to air Russian-made missiles and America
isn’t happy about it.
But India is looking out for its interests.
Although India and China have worked to establish economic and diplomatic ties, “border issues
remain a major flashpoint….The heightened tensions that reinflamed
violence to the point of military killing in June 2020 thus made this
border clash the worst in 45 years.”
India’s focus under Trump
was a tactical one. It was to develop “strategic partnerships with the
United States and its allies, while continuing strong relations with
Russia and other long-standing partners to ‘balance’ its national
security position.” And it isn’t about to change its tactics to appease
old Joe, who cannot be relied upon.
“Report: India Adds Surface-to-Air Missiles to Border with China,” by Gabrielle Reyes, Breitbart, July 25, 2022:
New Delhi plans to install a new
batch of surface-to-air missile systems along India’s northern Himalayan
border with China by October, the Times of India reported on Monday, as
the two neighbors remain engaged in a border standoff that began in
June 2020.
“India’s capability to detect and destroy hostile
fighters, strategic bombers, missiles and drones at long ranges will get
another major boost when a new squadron of the S-400 Triumf
surface-to-air missile systems becomes operational along the northern
borders with China in the next two to three months,” the Times of India
reported on July 25.
“[D]eliveries of the second operational S-400
squadron through ships and aircraft are now underway from Russia,” the
newspaper revealed, citing unnamed sources.
New Delhi has
continued to move forward with a plan to acquire five S-400
surface-to-air missile systems from Moscow pursuant to a $5.5 million
deal signed by the two parties in 2018.
The U.S. government
maintains icy relations with the Kremlin and actively discourages other
nations from supporting Moscow through defense deals. This attitude has
caused Washington to publicly oppose India’s acquisition of the Russian
anti-aircraft systems. The U.S. has additionally threatened to impose
sanctions on New Delhi should it follow through with the business
transaction. India, for its part, argues that it needs the Russian
S-400s to counter a grave “national security” threat from China along
the two Asian giants’ largely unmarked Himalayan boundary.
“India
has told the US that the S-400 systems, the acquisition process for
which began before CAATSA was enacted in 2017, are an ‘urgent national
security requirement’ to counter its hostile neighbors…
