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."
Sarawak Report : According to sources, the eve of election momentum in favour of the
Anwar Ibrahim led Pakistan Harapan coalition has been recognised by the
incumbent coalition parties, leaving them scrambling for solutions.
Once again the sub-text is ‘anything but Anwar’ and once again the
game-plan that has emerged will be to encourage an abuse of the role of
the monarch in the election process.
Both BN and PN, who chose to fight each other in every seat having
collaborated in a fractious government for the past two and a half
years, realise they look set to lose to PH in terms of the biggest party
to emerge from the election.
Worse, most polls now indicate that even added together BN and PN are
unlikely to muster as many seats as PH. The two parties are laying out
their flags and doling out goodies and cash as hard as they can muster,
however the ceramahs that are the most busy belong to PH.
Senior figures from UMNO are therefore falling back on abusive
tactics, namely to pressure the palace to offer the opportunity to form
the next government not to the leader of the party that wins the most
seats (most likely Anwar) but to the largest loser.
The plan is already well underway, say informants, with assurances
being passed to the Agong that if he were to appoint the leader of
either of the two main losing parties they would be successful in
cobbling together a coalition of the losers, who would prefer to suffer
working with their rivals than losing office altogether.
This would leave Malaysia once more in the grip of a quarrelling
bunch of rivalling and self-serving politicians fighting over the plum
positions for as long as they can muster a slender majority in the
federal parliament.
Once again dozens of ministers would need to be appointed at huge
public expense to keep all sides happy. Once again GLCs would have to be
stuffed with over-paid politicians as the bartering takes place. This has been the story of the past two and a half years of chaotic,
rancorous and kleptocratic rule following the overthrow of the last
majority elected government and it should not happen again.
