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."
Tulsi Gabbard, the marginally sane candidate in the Democratic presidential field, said Thursday
that Saudi Arabia is “undermining our national security interests” and
that “it is our government — our own government — that is hiding the
truth” about Saudi involvement in the 9/11 jihad attacks.
Gabbard noted that “for so
long, leaders in our government have said, ‘well, Saudi Arabia is our
great ally, they’re a partner in counterterrorism’ — turning a blind eye
or completely walking away from the reality that Saudi Arabia time and
again, has proven to be the opposite.”
The Hawaii congresswoman also
broke ranks with the bipartisan conventional wisdom about exactly what
side the Saudi government is on when she noted that the Saudis are “the
number one exporter of this Wahhabi extremist ideology. They’re a
fertile recruiting ground for terrorists, like al-Qaeda and ISIS around
the world. They’re directly providing arms and assistance to al-Qaeda in
places like Yemen and in Syria.”
Gabbard has a point. The
28-page section of the 9/11 report detailing Saudi involvement in the
September 11, 2001 jihad attacks was finally released in 2016 (albeit
with substantial portions still redacted), and it is now clear why one
president who held hands with the Saudi King and another who bowed to him
worked so hard all these years to keep these pages secret: they show
that it is highly likely that the 9/11 jihad murderers received
significant help from people at the highest levels of the Saudi
government.
The report states that Omar
al-Bayoumi, who “may be a Saudi intelligence officer,” gave “substantial
assistance to hijackers Khalid al-Mindhar and Nawaf al-Hamzi after they
arrived in San Diego in February 2000. Al-Bayoumi met the hijackers at a
public place shortly after his meeting with an individual at the Saudi
consulate.”
