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."
Icerd and the failure of Bangsa Malaysia - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Malaysiakini : “The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an
agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
COMMENT
| DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang’s revisionist history of the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
(Icerd) debacle and his “relief” that the current Suhakam chairperson,
Rahmat Mohamad, is not an opponent of the convention is the reason why
the Bangsa Malaysia Kool-Aid is perhaps the biggest con the opposition
has ever come up with.
I get that Kit Siang has to defend the rather hypocritical stand of the DAP but does anyone really buy into this nonsense? Take this gem for instance – “All throughout the Icerd fiasco at the
end of 2018, the DAP was completely in the dark as the party’s ministers
and leaders knew nothing about the issue.”
Really?
Come on,
then finance minister Lim Guan Eng in November 2018 in a 90-minute call
with the editors of Chinese dailies warned that certain parties were
playing up the issue. From the reportage – “According to Guan Eng,
the decision not to ratify Icerd was made in consensus after ministers
offered their views during today’s cabinet meeting.”
Do we really believe that the DAP was completely in the dark about
the issue? It seems to me that the DAP was doing everything in its power
not to get entangled in it. What does this say about how informed the DAP is, about the governance of this country if they were truly in the dark?
Guan
Eng also said although the situation needed to be “pacified”, people
should not be stopped from expressing their views on Icerd. This,
of course, did not apply to then minister in the Prime Minister’s
Department P Waytha Moorthy, who brought up the issue of Icerd but which
Guan Eng disavowed, claiming that the DAP did not raise the issue and
he wanted to concentrate on the economy.
This is funny, of course,
because even if we take Guan Eng’s deflection at face value,
discriminatory policies do affect the economy. Discriminatory
policies affect the economic viability of not only the non-Malay
community but more importantly, the majority-Malay community in this
country.
Discriminatory policies affect employment opportunities,
education opportunities, and the very ecosystem which sustains a vibrant
economy able to withstand the vagaries of turbulent world markets.
BlackShark2823 : It will be interesting to hear the response from DAP on this.
However, I feel there were more things involved. They might have been caught between the devil and the hard place.
Stay Safe : What we have is a form of Apartheid.
Apartheid:- a policy of political, social, and economic discrimination against one group or groups, especially when this results in disadvantage for the affected groups..!
