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."
The problem is Anwar doesn't question his non-Malay support By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, November 27, 2023
Malaysiakini : Political analyst Bridget Welsh in her latest piece
not only demonstrates why she is the best political observer of
Malaysian politics in play at the moment but also raises an important
point.
She wrote: āMore quietly, there has been a modest
streamlining of governance, improvements in efficiency and greater
cooperation among ministries. This has come despite strong resistance
from the bureaucracy who overwhelmingly did not vote for the current
government.ā
If you are a rational non-Malay, you have to ask yourself, why would Anwar empower an organisation which clearly benefits PN?
All
these provocations by various agent provocateurs of the state when it
comes to religion are hastily defined as āmiscommunicationsā by Madani
factotums.
And what do you do? You have given them more money to
carry out agendas which should be (but isnāt) antithetical to the Madani
state.
Flawed electoral system
It gets
worse because of the electoral system. Keep in mind that Bersatu was
created because the old maverick knew that the electoral system was
rigged.
As previously reported,
ā(Former prime minister) Dr Mahathir Mohamad noted that the opposition
coalition's multiracial approach had not been successful in rural Malay
constituencies, which is given disproportionate weightage in the general
election.
āThe former premier pointed out that this was seen when
the opposition coalition won 52 percent of the popular vote in the last
general election (2013) but still failed to capture Putrajaya.ā
This is what the ketuanan
types are betting on. PN continues to demonise DAP (proxy for
non-Malays) even though they know that the non-Malays (DAP) are bending
over backwards for Anwar.
Anwar meanwhile understands that the non-Malays will probably never abandon him or DAP because they fear the āGreen Waveā.
So
where does this leave the non-Malay voter? Well, either you support a
process of further religious and racial radicalisation through the
coalition you vote for which would lead to a theocratic state or do not
vote and get a theocratic state.
The question is, with time
running out, will the non-Malay vote continue to keep Anwar afloat? But
more importantly, will it matter on our current trajectory to an Islamic
state?
