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."
Who does Dr M disdain more, Chinese or Malays? By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Thursday, June 08, 2023
Malaysiakini : He has claimed that the Malays are lazy and ignorant, and have failed
to rise to the occasion despite all the privileges afforded to them. He
has admitted that he failed to change them.
Of course, he fails
to mention his failed policies when it comes to the majority polity and
his willing creation of a kakistocracy.
He fails to mention the
decades when he was in power he used the religion of the state to
curtail the Malay community all the while having cronies from the
Chinese plutocrat class, sustaining the gravy train through which Umno
fed from.
Dr Mahathir Mohamad with the other signatories of the Malay Proclamation movement
Meanwhile,
he has never failed to blame the Chinese community for everything. He
blames them for their economic success and the failure of his policies.
He blames them for stealing Malay land when the system he created and
fed from, sold them tanah Melayu.
He blames them for
causing a split in the Malay community when the reality is that the
rampant corruption and the religious industrial complex (which he
created) have polarised the Malay polity.
The former prime
minister has always described the Chinese community in Manichean terms,
especially when it comes to their place under the Malaysian sun. In
another congress, this one an Umno one in 2002, he said:
“If
we take out the Chinese and all that they have built and own, there
will be no small or big towns in Malaysia, there will be no business and
industry, there will be no funds for the subsidies, support, and
facilities for the Malays. Learn from the Chinese.”
Around the
same time, in an interview, Mahathir acknowledged: “The Chinese in
Malaysia have no special rights, they experience discrimination. But
they are more successful than us.”
Who made them afraid?
What does this tell us?
It tells us that the former prime minister has no problem reminding the
Malay community that their privilege and entitlements rest on a
community - the Chinese - who are discriminated against, thereby setting
up a narrative of resentment and self-aggrandisement when it comes to
the state-created racial role in this country.
And therein lies
the rub. Whoever the Chinese are, be it local or foreign, by Mahathir's
words, if the Chinese weren’t around they would be no business or
industry.
Mahathir has acknowledged that the Malays “… are so
afraid of other communities. Without the experience of competing with
others, if the protection (new economic policy) is suddenly withdrawn,
they will not be able to survive.”
And yet who made them afraid?
Well, his son Mukhriz has the answer. He admitted that whenever they
could not deal with issues facing the country or the Malay community,
Umno (meaning the entire Malay establishment) demonised the DAP and the Chinese community.
Pejuang chairperson Mukhriz Mahathir
Mukhriz
said: “Looking at Umno, when there were big issues which we could not
address, we would talk about DAP, Chinese chauvinism, and how Lim Kit
Siang becoming prime minister would destroy Malaysia, that the Malays
would disappear, and the mosques can no longer air the azan.
“I
admit that I too have said such things, in front of a 100 percent Malay
audience. Thinking back, I feel guilty and a sense of regret.”
And we know what Mahathir thinks of poor people. Keep in mind, he has said that Malays are lazy, ignorant, and backward.
And
what does he say about these poor, backward people, telling them on the
one hand to learn from the Chinese and on the other that they are to
blame for all their problems?
Well, Mahathir also reminds them
not to be envious. In 2020, he said: “There are those among us who feel
envious that they are wealthy, particularly if we have contributed to
their wealth. But this envy must be suppressed and not allowed to
influence us.
“Why are they poor? Because they are unproductive and do not contribute to society in a way where society would repay them.”
And
do not for one moment think any of this is solely the fault of the
Malay political operatives. Remember that train wreck of an interview Mahathir gave Malaysiakini
where he admitted that Harapan gave more to the Malay community but
could not admit it while the non-Malay political operatives went along
with this?
“We still have to give them, but what we gave to them
was very small (compared to what the Malays got). But we could not say
it then, because then the Chinese would be angry.”
So, who does
Mahathir disdain more? The community that he claims he wants to protect
because they are lazy, ignorant, and dependent on the Chinese for their
entitlements or the Chinese community, without which the Malay political
establishment would not be able to sustain Malay entitlement programmes
and demonise when they need to galvanise the Malays?
For the ketuanan types, the Malays can’t live with the Chinese community but can't live without them.
