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."
Our nation can hardly be
said to have a southern border at all anymore. Even if the border were
magically to reappear tomorrow, millions of people are already in the
country without anyone knowing who or what they are. One hundred
sixty-nine people on the FBI’s terror watch list were caught at the border in 2023; nobody knows how many people on that watch list got across the nonexistent border without being caught.
Four jihadis just murdered
at least 137 people in Moscow. They held the same beliefs as the Hamas
jihadis who murdered 1,200 people in Israel on Oct. 7. How many people
are in this country right now who aspire to be the next jihad warrior?
How many people are planning to become the next “martyr” and lay hold of
the Qur’an’s promise of a place in paradise for those who “kill and are
killed” for Allah?
No one knows, and even asking such questions is not allowed. Just last week, all of America’s many intelligence agencies received
instructions to avoid using terms such as “jihadist” so as to avoid
committing the cardinal sin of “Islamophobia.” Jihadists can quote the
Qur’an and invoke Islamic teaching all day long, but our intelligence
and law enforcement officials are not allowed to notice, or to study
their motives and goals, for such study would lead them inexorably into
the examination of Islam.
This means that the people whose job
it is to protect us from these jihad terrorists are bound as a matter of
government policy not to know or understand the motives and goals of
those terrorists whom they are trying to foil. Courting Muslim votes by
tiptoeing around the reality of the jihad threat is more important to
our elected and appointed officials than stopping the next Islamic jihad
attack.
So what is to be done? Well, we can vote the bums out,
but even if we do, all too many Republicans are just as squeamish as
Democrats about incurring charges of “Islamophobia,” which can be a
career killer even in these post-Oct. 7, post-Moscow, post-44,000
jihad attacks worldwide since 9/11 days. What’s more, cleaning up the
desperately corrupt FBI and the entire rotten intelligence apparatus is
not going to be done in a day, no matter who emerges victorious in
November.
