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."
Akmal should stop worrying and learn to love DAP By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, January 19, 2026
Malaysiakini : The reality is that the DAP has bent over for Umno at the cost of angering its base.
Teresa
Kok, a target of Akmal, was even chastised by the prime minister over
her comments on halal certification, even though her comments were in
fact taking into account the hardship faced by small Malay businesses
and the economic effects mandatory halal certification would have on
them.
Teresa Kok
So,
you see, even when DAP voices out concern, which would help the Malay
community, it is demonised, and more often than not, the head of Madani
would side with the far-right ethnocentric agitators who really do
nothing for the Malay community.
This is why the Malay uber alles
crowd does not want a local election. If non-Malays are seen taking into
account the welfare of Malays in their areas, this would shake the
ideological bedrock of the establishment.
Mind you, the
capitalist, of course, does not want a local election because it would
place power in the hands of the rakyat, and this would screw up the
whole social contract, which has sustained the political class for
decades.
Taking the hits
DAP
representatives have been vilified. DAP representatives have had police
reports made against them. DAP representatives have had their cars fire
bombed. DAP representatives have been reprimanded by the prime minister
of their coalition.
DAP
representatives have had to make retractions and apologies. DAP
representatives have been attacked by online mobs, who happen to also be
the people who voted for them, and did you see DAP having a hissy fit
and threatening to resign from all posts and abandoning Madani?
Why?
Because the other thing the DAP is good at besides attacking the MCA is
taking hits from their Malay uber alles partners. The party has always
had a soft spot for folks they have deemed as tyrannical and detrimental
to a vision of a united Malaysia.
DAP has worked with PAS. DAP
has worked with Bersatu. Indeed, all these Malay uber alles parties owe a
debt of gratitude to DAP, but they know DAP will never collect.
Even
when it comes to Najib Abdul Razak, DAP was willing to work with him.
Sure, now that he is in jail, DAP gets all uppity, but remember, in
2016, DAP said it was willing to work with Najib.
“I
am prepared to work with any Malaysian to save Malaysia, not only Dr
Mahathir Mohamad and Muhyiddin Yassin, but even with Najib if the prime
minister is prepared to admit that he had led the country on a wrong
tangent and that Malaysia must be saved with far-reaching democratic and
institutional reforms,” said Lim Kit Siang.
What DAP brings to
any kind of coalition is the majority backing of a voting demographic,
and hence, they can claim to be the “voice” of the community on secular
and egalitarian issues.
The fact that they have to downplay such
aspirations proves how well they can play with weak factions of the
Malay political establishment.
Not a threat
Akmal
should learn from Nazri Abdul Aziz, whose chequered past with Umno did
not mean he did not understand the benefits of being sympathetic to DAP.
Indeed, poor Gerakan had conniptions because Nazri understood how
beneficial a relationship with DAP was.
Nazri Abdul Aziz
In 2018, Nazri said,
“I said the voice of the Chinese after the 2013 general election is
DAP. Is that wrong? I am friends with DAP because I respect democracy.
“I want to carry out tourism work in Seremban and in Penang. These are DAP areas. I cannot leave them aside.”
Akmal
goes on about defending race and religion when even the top guys in
Umno know that DAP is not a threat to Islam in this country. Here is
Umno secretary-general Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, just last year, who wanted to debunk the slander of Islam threatened:
"This
is a fundamental matter that we must understand, so that all slander
and accusations - as though Umno is selling out the country, Islam, and
the Malay struggle to others - can be put to rest."
Indeed, so
inept has DAP been when it comes to maintaining the secular line, and so
eager has the party been to please their Malay/Muslim partners that it
has bent over backwards for an overtly religious state. More
importantly, while non-Malays condemn such appeasement strategies
online, they remain a fixed deposit for DAP.
Honestly, you know
why the Umno big cheese is so hesitant to work with snakes who have
betrayed Umno? Because the Malay establishment, well, intelligent or
cunning ones, understand that Malay uber alles types always fight with
each other.
Take what happened in Perlis, for instance, which managed to fragment Perikatan Nasional.
This is what bugs Akmal so much. The fact that DAP is the best partner the far right can have as long as demographics allow.
