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."
Twenty-One Years Ago Today, Some People Did Something, and No One Cares - September 11
Sunday, September 11, 2022
Robert Spencer : The September 11, 2001 jihad terror attacks were twenty-one years ago,
and Americans have moved on. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) was widely
ridiculed and even reviled a few years ago for breezily characterizing
9/11 as the day when “some people did something,” but she has had the
last laugh: the coverage of the attacks every year is a study in
avoidance, with the establishment media focusing on anything and
everything besides the motivating ideology and goals of the attackers.
As always, the media’s favorite preoccupation is the persistence of
Muslim victimhood: every 9/11 anniversary, we’re inundated with stories
about how Muslims suffered on that day, and continue to suffer, from
racist and unwarranted suspicion that has made their lives in America, a
land to which they came with so much hope, a veritable living hell.
Another conspicuous omission is coverage of the persistence of the
threat of which 9/11 was one manifestation. Most Americans assume that
that threat, insofar as it ever existed, has passed, and no longer need
trouble anyone. Recently an emailer taunted me by informing me that I
was “very 2005,” and I got the point: sounding the alarm about the jihad
threat at this late date? Really? It would seem passé to me also, in
this age of the confidently advancing authoritarianism of the Left, to
tout the global jihad as a threat to freedom today, were it not for the
fact that there are still jihad terror attacks every day, more than I am
able to report on. And for another reason as well.
