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."
Anwar's cabinet of necessity - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, December 05, 2022
Malaysiakini : There are also the ministries that, if managed properly, are a direct
line to the masses and could play a pivotal role in shaping Malay
public opinion, which is why it is good that DAP supremo Anthony Loke said this: “Therefore whatever positions we have been given, we will do the best for the country.”
DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke
The
DAP can have a great influence in the country if they manage these
ministries well and indeed play a pivotal role in Anwar's agenda to
supplant the extremist vote for a more moderate agenda.
I get it, I really do. It is horrible being denied political power merely because of your race.
More
importantly, it is terrible to be denied political power to appease the
propaganda that the DAP is secretly controlling Anwar.
“We
supported him without any conditions. I said that if (DAP) was a
stumbling block (to the formation of a government) we would facilitate
and ease (the process) of him getting a majority,” said Loke, and this
is very commendable.
In fact, this is what people like Abdul Hadi
Awang and Muhyiddin Yassin will not understand. Sacrifice for greater
utilitarian good.
Meanwhile, playing a bad cop - or is that good
cop - depending on which part of the base is being appealed to I
suppose, the Penang DAP head honcho laments the fact that the DAP is not getting their due.
Ok,
so what happens if the DAP gets the most ministries? Do you think that
this would make it easier or harder for Hadi to make his case that the
Chinese community is controlling the country? And would this be better
or worse for the DAP in the long run?
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang
The reality is that the power of the DAP is to move large voting
blocks to secure the urban areas from the encroachment of racial and
religious barbarians.
The power of the DAP is to secure the
economic areas of progress which ironically funds the extremism that we
are facing now. This point is beyond the scope of this article and
something I have discussed before.
Toxic brew of extremism
Zahid
as a DPM gambit only pays off if Zahid is able to maintain control of
Umno, and more importantly, supports the initiatives to correct the
electoral imbalances that favour the religious extremism in this
country.
And no matter what anyone tells you, this is the key right here, and hopefully, in the agenda of the current prime minister.
This
is why Hadi is frothing mad and going into conniptions. What he and PN
hoped for was a government which would have carried out the greatest
electoral delineation process this country ever saw, which would have
ensured that it would remain in power in perpetuity.
People think
the 1MDB scam was the greatest robbery they had ever witnessed. Well, PN
and PAS were going to steal democracy from right under our noses.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Azalina Othman Said
New
minister Azalina Othman Said stated that “….. and where need be, laws
will be reformed to reinstate rights to the vulnerable, marginalised,
and those who are not treated equally in our nation.”
Hopefully
what this compromise government and these ministers understand is that
there are far too many outdated laws that favour the racial and
religious extremists that threaten this “unity government” and the best
way to ensure the continued stability of this government, but more
importantly, this country, is to reform laws that enable and embolden
the racial and religious extremists who now form the opposition in this
country.
What the Harapan base needs to remember is that the
efficacy of this cabinet is not the personalities involved but whether
Anwar’s government, through his cabinet, can withstand the toxic brew of
extremism that is being mainlined into the arteries of this country.
What
the Harapan base needs to come to grips with, is that the DAP, for some
time, may not get its political due but will have to be content – if
this government lasts that long that is – to remain the backbone of
Harapan.
I understand that this may be an unpopular opinion but as
I have always argued, the existential threat facing this country is
religious extremism and if they win, it will be cold comfort that the
DAP continues winning the most seats but being part of an ineffective
opposition.
Ultimately, with the gerrymandering and the
demographics as destiny agenda of the racial and religious extremists,
it will all mean bupkis.
If this is truly Harapan’s last shot, the base should make it count.
