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."
Trump’s 2024 campaign is all about revenge - I am your retribution
Friday, March 08, 2024
BCF : In his under-recognized 2007 book Think Big and Kick Ass: In Business
and Life, Donald Trump dedicated a chapter to “Revenge.” He wrote: “My
motto is: always get even. When somebody screws you, screw them back in
spades.”
Vengeance is a lifelong theme in the Donald J. Trump story, narrated
as it is by Donald J. Trump. In 1992, he told the interviewer Charlie
Rose: “I love getting even with people.” He’s fond of quoting Alfred
Hitchcock: “Revenge is sweet and not fattening.” In January this year,
after his primary victory in New Hampshire, he reiterated: “I don’t get
too angry — I get even.”
Trump knows that the presidential election of 2024 could be the most delectable payback of all. Following the humiliation of his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 — a stolen election, he and many others believe — and the exhausting persecution he has suffered ever since at the hands of the US legal system, he senses that Lady Luck, his favorite mistress, is once again bending his way.
He has made “Retribution” the leitmotif of his campaign. “In 2016, I declared I am your voice,”!he told the Conservative Political Action Conference. “Today I add: I am your warrior, I am your justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution, I am your retribution.”
