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."
Hungarian Conservative : It has been approximately three weeks since a twenty-two-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini or Zhina Amini, died in a Tehran hospital after she was arrested and beaten by religious morality police for
not wearing the hijab in accordance with government standards. Within
hours, women appeared in the streets, burning their hijabs and calling
for justice. Days later, the protests spread and got larger. In towns
and cities across Iran, schoolchildren have abandoned their classrooms
to join the masses thronging the junctions and blocking streets. The
brutality, however, did not cease.
On 20 September, Nika Shakarami, a sixteen-year-old, went missing in
Tehran after telling a friend she was being chased by police. Her
relatives were coerced into
making false statements that she died falling from a roof. And now,
reports are surfacing of the death of yet another teenage girl, Sarina
Esmailzadeh, at the hands of the Iranian security forces.
Sixteen-year-old Sarina, who posted videos on YouTube, was killed when
the security forces beat her with batons at a protest in Gohardasht in
Alborz province on 23 September, according to Amnesty International. But
the current acts if state violence are sadly nothing new—the people in
the Islamic Republic of Iran have been oppressed ever since Shah
Mohammad Pahlavi was ousted from power in 1979.
How Iran Became an Islamic Theocracy
Political experts hold that the removal of the Shah of Iran in 1979
resulted from his secularisation of the country, which included
implementing policies such as the Family Protection Act of 1975. This precipitated anger among the Shi’ite clerics, since it granted women more rights within the family. Thenew
legislation also lifted a number of juridical family matters from
clerical jurisdiction and handed them to the newly created family courts
for settlement.
