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 Tablet : In
early June 1946, Haj Amin el-Husseini, also known as the Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem, escaped from a year of pleasant house arrest in France and
flew to Cairo.
Husseini, by then often referred to in Egypt simply as
“the Mufti,” was internationally renowned as a collaborator with Nazi
Germany as a result of his meeting with Adolf Hitler in Berlin in
November 1941, and his Arabic language tirades to “kill the Jews”
broadcast to the Middle East on the Third Reich’s short wave radio
transmitters. Husseini was a key figure in an ideological and political
fusion between Nazism and Islamism that achieved critical mass between
1941 and 1945 in Nazi Germany, and whose adherents sought to block the
United Nations Partition Plan to establish an Arab and a Jewish state in
former British Mandate Palestine, helping to define the boundaries of
Arab politics for decades thereafter.
On June 11, 1946, Hassan al-Banna, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, penned the following welcome home to Husseini:
Al-Ikhwan
Al-Muslimin and all Arabs request the Arab League on which Arab hopes
are pinned, to declare that the Mufti is welcome to stay in any Arab
country he may choose, and that great welcome should be extended to him
wherever he goes, as a sign of appreciation for his great services for
the glory of Islam and the Arabs. The hearts of the Arabs palpitated
with joy at hearing that the Mufti has succeeded in reaching an Arab
country. The news sounded like thunder to the ears of some American,
British, and Jewish tyrants. The lion is at last free, and he will roam
the Arabian jungle to clear it of wolves.
The great leader is back after many years of suffering in exile. Some Zionist papers in Egypt printed by La Societé de Publicitéshout
and cry because the Mufti is back. We cannot blame them for they
realize the importance of the role played by the Mufti in the Arab
struggle against the crime about to be committed by the Americans and
the English…The Mufti is worth the people of a whole nation put
together. The Mufti is Palestine and Palestine is the Mufti. Oh Amin!
What a great, stubborn, terrific, wonderful man you are! All these years
of exile did not affect your fighting spirit.
