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."
COMMENT - Do Malays really want to be united? By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, May 11, 2026
Malaysiakini : Of course, when you consider that DAP’s head honcho Anthony Loke
said, “I told Anwar Ibrahim, as long as you can be prime minister, DAP
is willing to sacrifice anything, that is my commitment to Anwar
Ibrahim”, rational people realise that the main thing this country has
going for it is that every community is complicit in the destruction of
the country’s democratic future.
I noticed the former prime
minister replaced “royalty” with “country”, and this fits his pattern
because if there is one institution that Mahathir has shown more
contempt for than any other, it is the royal institution, which over the
decades he has battled not for any populist agendas but rather because
he chafed at his power being shared.
While Mahathir attempted to
curtail the royal institution for self-serving reasons, the resurgence
of the institution under the current prime minister, which issues
diktats that the federal government assimilates, demonstrates how weak
the political apparatus is when dealing with incursions into its
constitutional powers.
Threat to status quo
Keep
in mind, back in the Najib Abdul Razak era, Mahathir acknowledged that
the royal institution and he were in the same camp because both viewed
Najib as a threat to the status quo.
“So what they are doing
is not because of me or supporting me, it is because they know that the
future is bad. I won’t be around for very long, but their future, their
children’s future, new sultans will be under the thumb of Najib and
also under the thumb of future prime ministers. So they worry about
that.”
Najib Abdul Razak
Mahathir
was adamant that he did not know of Najib’s malfeasances, dismissing
allegations as rumours, which, strangely enough, is something that
Madani does when confronted with evidence of corruption within the ranks
of Madani.
This, of course, does not take into account the
various discharges not amounting to acquittals which have been granted
to fellow travellers on the Madani road.
Then again, corruption
allegations always seem to be swirling around the prime minister’s men
in this country. Mahathir claimed that he only ever heard rumours about
Najib’s corruption.
Now, of course, with the corporate mafia,
allegations against various aides and an assortment of holdovers from
previous Umno regimes, the current prime minister hears no corruption
but, more importantly, sees no corruption, while the state goes after
individuals deemed a threat to the natural Madani order of things.
Selective
prosecutions, even if those targeted are corrupt, do not detract from
the very obvious failings of the graft-busting agency and the political
apparatus.
Hand in gravy train
Anwar
was recently crowing about Madani’s strong bumiputera agenda. As
reported in the press, ”… Anwar added that the responsibility of
advancing the bumiputera agenda has also been entrusted to the deputy
prime minister…” which raises two points.
The
first is that Umno still has its hand on the direction of the gravy
train, which would make it easier to sustain the political party. The
second is that all these state-sponsored programmes, which are supposed
to benefit the bumiputera community, will not have the desired effect
because of incompetence and leakages.
Former prime minister Ismail
Sabri Yaakob has admitted that the vast bureaucracy had carried out all
those poverty alleviation programmes and nobody had any idea about
their effectiveness – “… that hitherto many ministries had programmes on
poverty alleviation but there was no specific monitoring on their
effectiveness.”
Not because monitoring these programmes
would mean transparency, but because many of these programmes were part
of the gravy train driven by bureaucrats, political operatives and
their various proxies.
Umno was never really for the Malays, but
rather, they were for Umno. Memories of some are short, but I remember
when former Kota Raja Umno chief Amzah Umar revealed: “We give a seven percent discount for bumiputera buyers and 12 percent for Umno members, if I am not mistaken.”
Enslaving, not emancipating
Every
“Malay” politician is acutely aware that championing the “Malay” cause
does not mean emancipating the Malay community but rather enslaving
them.
Of course, nobody thinks they are enslaving their community
but carrying out so-called favourable policies meant to protect their
community from the “others”.
Why do you think that Madani wanted something like the failed Urban Renewal Act?
Instead of local council elections, which act as a check and balance to
a whole range of issues and where communities determine what is needed
in the places they live, we get the URA, which concentrates power in the
government and where back channelling, backroom deals and corporate
malfeasance get a fig leaf of legality.
This is why PSM wants the focus back on holding local council polls.
Do
you know why Malay uber alles politicians play the race card when it
comes to local council polls? They want to destroy democratic
opportunities where the Malays, especially if they are a minority in
certain areas, understand that their welfare is safeguarded by a
non-Malay majority.
And that right there is the problem. The
establishment is defined by how it wants to destroy democratic
opportunities for the Malay community, not to mention curtail
independent thought, because such freedoms would jeopardise the
political elites.
By mainstreaming a racial supremacist policy, the majority community has trapped itself in a Gordian knot.
It is not about uniting the Malays. It is about keeping them under your boot.
