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."
Jamal Khashoggi: The Media Fights For A "Dismembered" Muslim Brotherhood Pal Of Osama Bin Laden
Friday, October 19, 2018
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BCF : In high school, Jamal Khashoggi had a good friend. His name was Osama bin Laden.
āWe were hoping to establish an Islamic state anywhere,ā Khashoggi reminisced
about their time together in the Muslim Brotherhood. āWe believed that
the first one would lead to another, and that would have a domino effect
which could reverse the history of mankind.ā
Dismembered
The friendship endured with Jamal Khashoggi following Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan. Khashoggi credited Adel Batterjee, listed at one time
as one of āthe worldās foremost terrorist financiersā by the Treasury
Department, with bringing him to Afghanistan to report on the fighting. The media calls Khashoggi a journalist, but his writings from 80s
Afghanistan read as Jihadist propaganda with titles like, "Arab
Mujahadeen in Afghanistan II: Exemplifies the Unity of Islamic Ummah".
And when Osama bin Laden set up Al Qaeda, he called Khashoggi with the details. After Afghanistan, Jamal Khashoggi went to work as a media adviser for
former Saudi intel boss, Prince Turki bin Faisal, alleged to have links
to Al Qaeda. Those allegations came from, among others, Zacarias
Moussaoui, the alleged twentieth hijacker. When the other 19 hijackers perpetrated the attacks of September 11, Khashoggi wrote that the Saudis would not āgive inā to American ādemandsā for āunconditional condemnationā and ātotal cooperationā.
"Saudis tend to link the ugliness of what happened in New York and
Washington with what has happened and continues to happen in Palestine.
It is time that the United States comes to understand the effect of its
foreign policy and the consequences of that policy," he declared. "A Muslim cannot be happy with the suffering of others. Even if this
suffering is that of Americans who neglected the suffering of
Palestinians for half a century."
