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."
America’s Islamist problem The New Orleans attack is yet another wake-up call - Will it be heeded? By Melanie Phillips
Saturday, January 11, 2025
JNS : How many wake-up calls does a society need before it takes notice? On New Year’s Day, a terrorist rammed a truck bearing an Islamic
State flag into revelers on a New Orleans street and then started
shooting, leaving at least 15 dead and others injured. Pipe bombs wired
for remote detonation were found inside the truck, and two other bombs
were found in the area.
Hours later, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump Hotel in
Las Vegas, killing one person and injuring others. At the time of
writing, it was unknown if the two attacks were connected.
The New Orleans terrorist, Shamshud-din Jabbar, was a U.S. Army
veteran from Houston, Texas. He worked in IT at Deloitte. Having
initially suspected he had accomplices, the police later said they
believed he had acted alone.
On Truth Social, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump repeated his
previous claim that “the criminals coming in are far worse than the
criminals we have in our country.”
It’s undeniable that there’s a terrorism threat from the collapse of U.S. border controls. There have been several reported instances of ISIS-affiliated terrorists crossing America’s southern border. But Jabbar was born in Texas.
For years now, America has told itself that Islamic terrorism is a
European problem, in particular when it comes to home-grown Islamists.
Now Americans have been brought up hard against the evidence that this
is their problem as well.
Just as in Britain and elsewhere in the West, a curious state of
denial and amnesia has afflicted America every time an Islamist attack
takes place. There was the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, the attack at Ohio State University in 2016, and the bike path massacre in New York City in 2017. The response to every such attack is shock and disbelief, as if it’s come out of the blue.
Jabbar wasn’t the first radicalized Muslim army veteran. In 2009, a
former U.S. Army major, Nidal Hasan, murdered 13 people on the military
base at Fort Hood. Nor was New Orleans the first vehicular attack. In
2006, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove a rented Jeep into a crowd of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.