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."
Breaking
news: CAIR, perennial agitator for language purges and āhate speechā
regulation, is suddenly the champion of First Amendment free expression.
It proves, once again, that Islamists and leftists are just like
defense lawyers. A defense lawyer who has a good case can be very persuasive. If the
defendant really is innocent, or if the prosecutionās case really is
flawed, defense counsel can take one main line of defense and pound away
at it relentlessly. That is how doubt is sown, which is the defense
lawyerās objective. A credible story that the prosecutor cannot
completely refute is the roadmap to acquittal.
This, however, is not the lot of most defense lawyers. In the vast
majority of cases, the client really is guilty, and the state really
does have ironclad proof. So defense counsel becomes the charlatan for
whom every trial day is a new day. On Monday, he tries a
false-identification theory, suggesting that the defendant was not even
at the scene of the crime. When that doesnāt fly, on Tuesday he runs
with, āWell, maybe he was there, but he didnāt know the three guys he
was with.ā Once that blows up, Wednesdayās gambit is: āWell, sure, he
knew them, but he didnāt know they were going to rob the bank.ā By
Thursday, itās: āWell, maybe he said heād help them, but one was a
government informant, so he must have been entrapped.ā
Our defense lawyer is put in this untenable position because his true
objective is fundamentally different from his lofty pretense. He
purports to be on a quest for justice, but the only thing he really
cares about is getting the defendant off, by any means that might work.
Thus, he tries all means he can think of, even if they are contradictory
ā even if positing the first defense undermines the next, ultimately
destroying his overall credibility as an advocate.
Although it does more than its share of litigating, the Council on
American-Islamic Relations operates mainly in the court of public
opinion. CAIR is the Muslim Brotherhood bullhorn created to cheerlead
for sharia, for Hamas, and for sundry other jihadists ā all under the
guise of ācivil rights.ā In unison with its āsocial justiceā
collaborators on the left, CAIR is most often found campaigning against
āIslamophobia.ā This is a term strategically created by the Brotherhood
to slur as ādefamationā or āincitementā (collectively, āhate speechā)
any criticism of Islamic supremacism. That includes the ideologyās
undeniable roots in Muslim scripture; its vow to destroy the West from
within; and its promotion of terrorism against legitimate sovereign
authority, spun as āresistanceā against āoccupation.ā
It is farce. CAIR has no real interest in hate speech per se. Indeed,
it has no real interest in civil rights ā no proponent of sharia could.
Its sole actual imperative is Islamic supremacism: promoting any cause
that increases Islamic influence and protesting any effort either to
reduce Islamic influence or to subject Islamic-supremacist doctrine to
scrutiny. Consequently, CAIRās precious fretting over hate speech
extends only so far as Islam is advanced or imperiled.
The same is true of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation ā the
supranational caliphate in the making ā whose top goal at the moment is
suppression of speech about Islam. Like its CAIR confederates, the OIC
pretends to be a champion of universal āhuman rights.ā Thus it feigns
opposition to defamation or incitement against what it calls āreligion.ā
But we know this is fraudulent ā or at least we would know if
examination of Islamist ideology were not so adamantly discouraged. It
is a plain, irrefutable fact that Islamic countries repress the practice
of other religions. Indeed, the practice of religions other than Islam
is illegal in Saudi Arabia, the OICās de facto leader.
Patently, it is not āreligionā that the OIC cares about; it is Islam.
āReligionā is invoked as a smokescreen, enabling these Islamist
activists to pose as guardians of civil rights rather than the vanguard
of Islamic supremacism.
All of this is worth sorting out because, unexpectedly, we have a teachable moment. The state of California has adopted a resolution decreeing that āno public resources will be allowed to be used for any anti-Semitic or any intolerant agitation.ā
