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."
'Terrorists Are Killing Everyone,' the Christian Genocide in the Middle East By Stephen Green
Saturday, March 15, 2025
PJ : "The terrorists are killing everyone. Children, women, teenagers, old
people — just killing," a Syrian Christian said in a video posted to X
today.
"Please, please, please — the media is not showing you anything."
The slaughter isn't limited to Christians, as members of the Alawite
faith are also being murdered by the forces in control of most of
post-Assad Syria.
To be fair, the whole sordid mess seems to have kicked off last week
as Assad regime dead-enders (the Assad family is Alawite, a syncretic
religion with Muslim, Christian, and other elements) with attacks that
"included killings and mass displacement of civilians along the
country’s Mediterranean coast," according to a Wall Street Journal report today.
Dareen
Khalifa, a senior adviser at International Crisis Group, claimed that
the Alawite forces were "baited into" last week's attacks, "and they
definitely walked into the trap and acted in the worst possible way."
The new Syrian regime, established after the fall of Bashar al-Assad
last year, is led by former al Qaeda terrorist Ahmed al-Sharaa. I always
wonder how "former" he actually is.
Due to the ongoing digital
assault against X, I'm unable to embed posts in this column like I
usually would. But you can still watch the video here.
Reliable
estimates are difficult, maybe even impossible to come by. The ones
I've found so far indicate that anywhere between 1,200 and 7,000
Christians and Alawites have been murdered over the last two days.
