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."
Jihad Watch : Some people did something. And by some people, they mean Americans. If there was one day of the year where the most loathsome members of
the Squad should summon up some lingering decency and shut up, it would
be this one. But of course, the terror caucus can never rest and so it
had a plan for defiling the September 11 anniversary.
And so Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, along with Pramila Jayapal,
introduced a resolution claiming that Muslims were the real victims of
September 11 and suffered persecution due to counterterrorism. The hateful resolution reads in part…
“Whereas there was a climate of hate in which Arab,
Muslim, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Sikh communities experienced
bullying and violence in their everyday lives and in their workplaces,
businesses, community centers and houses of worship;
Whereas the government targeted Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, South
Asian and Sikh communities with overreaching policing, surveillance, and
criminalization policies that resulted in wrongful interrogation,
coercion, detention, deportation, arrest, and incarceration;
Whereas core principles like due process, presumption of innocence,
and evidence of wrongdoing were replaced with mob mentality and guilt by
association; Whereas the fearmongering and hateful rhetoric witnessed
in the aftermath of the attacks remain commonplace today;
Whereas border officials and government authorities cast aside
constitutional rights and engaged in discriminatory searches and
seizures of Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Sikh
community members;
Whereas false narratives about Arabs, Islam and American Muslims
abound, and are encouraged and justified by a network of closely
connected and well-funded organizations and activists that seek
to propagate misinformation about these communities and provide support
for policies that curtail their rights;
Whereas the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, as well as
human rights violations ranging from torture at Guantanamo Bay to
extrajudicial drone strikes, also contributed to this climate of hate
and the government targeting of these communities;”
The resolution “acknowledges the climate of hate that Arab, Muslim,
Middle Eastern, South Asian and Sikh communities have experienced since
September 11, 2001” and Calls the Secretary of Health and Human
Services, the National Institute of Health, and the National Science Foundation to work together to study the impact of hate,
government targeting, and profiling on physical and mental health.”
Maybe this is why Muslim apologists keep claiming that every Muslim terrorist is suffering from mental illness.
