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."
Anwar’s Ketuanan Melayu - Not all Malays are equal
Tuesday, November 07, 2023
Murray Hunter : Ketuanan Melayu or Malay supremacy has been an unwritten component of
government policy for the last 50 years. Many had hoped that Ketuanan
Melayu would be pronounced ‘dead and buried’, when Anwar Ibrahim became
prime minister.
Anwar’s cry over the years was Ketuanan Malaysian. However,
his launching of Malaysia Madani indicated otherwise. The semantics of
Madani sounded good – sustainability, prosperity, innovation, respect,
trust, and compassion – but the actions have resembled a continuance of
Ketaunan Melayu, hidden behind the Madani branding.
With the
reintroduction of the 1970s vintage 3Rs (Race, Royalty, and Religion),
any effective discussion about Ketuanan Melayu has been suppressed.
Mainstream portals are now reluctant to carry OpEds on the subject, and
any blogger who does could be blocked by the MCMC.
Twelve
months down the track, non-Malays are experiencing a sense of
disenfranchisement they haven’t felt for years. This was symbolised by Anwar’s answer to a student who asked him about the quota system
in education. The prime minister personally made her feel she had
encroached upon taboo, citing the long forgotten ‘social contract’,
another term from the seventies.
Enhancing Malay-centric government
Anwar
has reaffirmed the 1.7 million people civil service doesn’t need any
reform, even when it is bloated and inefficient. There are no moves to
widen the ethnic diversity of the civil service inline with ethnic
demographics that exist in Malaysia today.
RM 1.9 billion has been
allocated to the Islamic Development Department of Malaysia (JAKIM) and
its responsibilities widened to include responsibilities for policing
censorship on the web, and playing a role in economic planning. This has ensured a ‘Malay-centric’ mindset is further embedded into the civil service and government.
