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."
Globalist EU set to sanction Hungary over landslide Orban election win By Christine Douglass-Williams
Saturday, April 09, 2022
European Union
Robert Spencer : “Hungary could lose out as EU moves to link cash to rule of law respect,” by Alice Tidey, EuroNews, April 5, 2022:
Brussels has triggered a process in Hungary that threatens to link the payment of EU cash to respect for rule of law. It comes two days after Viktor Orban, secured a fifth — and fourth consecutive — term as Hungary’s prime minister. Orban
has clashed frequently with the European Commission over respect for
key EU values, such as LGBT rights, rule of law and attacks on
independent media.
Now, the European Commission has notified
Budapest it is triggering the so-called “conditionality mechanism” over
rule of law breaches, opening the door to financial sanctions. “The
Commission has today spoken to the Hungarian authorities that we will
now send a formal letter to start the conditionality mechanism,”
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen told MEPs.
Earlier
in her address, Von der Leyen had said that the European Commission
required Budapest to implement reforms to tackle corruption. However, she noted that the two sides have “not been able to find common ground”. She
added that the Commission has followed the procedure as laid out by
treaties by addressing a letter of formal notice and later referring the
case to the European Court of Justice and that upon receiving Hungary’s
answers, they drew the “conclusion we have to move on to the next
step”.
MEPs in Strasbourg, who have long demanded the EU’s
executive proceed with the new mechanism, cheered the announcement with a
round of applause. Daniel Freund, an MEP for the Greens/EFA group, welcomed it by writing on Twitter: “It’s happening. FINALLY!” But German Green MEP, Rasmus Andresen, told Euronews that the rule of law mechanism should have been triggered sooner.
“One
of the reasons why Orbán is as strong as he is, is because many in
Brussels had not learnt lessons in the past and actually supported him
in the past and now we really need to speed up on issues like the rule
of law mechanism, but also when it comes to other sanctions we can do
against Hungary and Viktor Orbán,” Andresen said.
MEPs first
approved the rule of law mechanism regulation in December 2020, followed
by intense haggling at then European Council level, with Hungary and
Poland both demanding it to be watered down and threatening to veto the
bloc’s budget over it. The two countries then referred the
mechanism to the ECJ, which ruled in February that EU institutions could
tie funding to member states to respect for the rule of law. On Sunday, Orban’s Fidesz party secured 53% of the vote and a two-thirds “supermajority” in parliament.
Orban, who has built his career on EU-bashing, had described his victory on Sunday evening as ” so big that you can see it from the moon, and you can certainly see it from Brussels.”…
