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."
Washington Times : To survive, Europe must return to its rootsā. In Germany, the party usually described as far-right ā Alternative for Germany
(AfD) ā doubled its share of the vote in the recent elections, from 9%
in 2021 to 20.2%. Itās now the nationās second-largest party.
.
The ruling socialist party of Chancellor Olaf
Scholz came in third with just 16%, its worst showing since the end of
World War II. The centrist-conservative Christian Democratic
Union (CDU) had a plurality with 28.8%. Its leader, Friedrich Mertz, has
announced he will form a coalition with the socialists rather than AfD,
which shows how much Europeās conservative parties really care about
policy.
Germanyās
principal problems are immigration and Islam. The tragedy was set into
motion by Conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel. In 2015, Ms. Merkel
took in 1.2 million refugees from Syria to satisfy a misguided
humanitarian impulse and bolster an economy short of workers.
Today, Germany
accepts half of all European asylum-seekers ā 300,000 in 2023. Last
year, the number of migrants seeking government benefits increased by
169%. Although they didnāt aid Germanyās sagging economy, migrants have made jihad a part of daily life in the Federal Republic.
The past few months have brought high-profile
migrant attacks in Munich, Magdeburg and Aschaffenburg. A December
car-ramming at a Christmas market in Magdeburg left 10 dead and 34
injured. (The assailant probably couldnāt find a Hanukkah market.)
