Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen 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 soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt 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."
JNS : The movement to spark a revolution against the West is led by an unholy alliance of Islamists, ultra-leftists and white supremacists. It sounds rather abstract when pro-Hamas
demonstrators scream āGlobalize the intifada!ā Intifada, thatās an
Israeli thing, right?
In fact, intifada means
āuprisingā in Arabic. It designates terrorism by Palestinians against
Israeli sovereignty in the indigenous Jewish homeland. Today, those
supporting this terrorism have broadened it, āglobalizedā it, to
describe attacks worldwide on Jews specifically and Western institutions
generally.
It seems to be working. In Amsterdam, just
a few weeks ago, mobs of Muslim men hunted down and assaulted Jews as
crowds cheered them on. Similar attacks took place days later in
Antwerp, Belgium and Berlin. In Hanoi, Vietnam, a Jewish family was
ejected by a store owner, who yelled āFree Palestineā while giving them
the middle finger.
If those examples seem too remote,
consider these: In Los Angeles, a Jewish man was killed by a blow to the
head by a pro-Hamas protester. In Oakland, Calif., a man wearing a cap
with the star of David on it was ejected by a Muslim coffee shop owner
for being Jewish. The home of the Jewish president of the University of
Washington was attacked and spray-painted with pro-Palestinian messages
threatening the president, and in Chicago, a man walking to synagogue
was shot in what police call a terror attack.
