“To retreat before victory would be an act of recklessness and dishonor, and I will not allow it.”
The true samaurai knows that quitting is only winning if you define victory as being a loser. Those advocating “cut and run” should ‘cut’ open their own bowels and let them ‘run’ out onto the ground.
Death before dishonor!
From Sigmund Freud:
“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.”
Explains a lot, don’t it? (hat tip to The Conservative UAW Guy)
Samurai Warlord Peter Pace, new nominee for Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked about if our specialized approach to caves and tunnels is like that in WWII and Vietnam. He was to have replied:
Our specialized approach to caves and tunnels is to put 500-pound bombs in the entrance.
(Respectful bow to Jay Nordlinger)
So said The New Pope:
Christianity is not “our” work; it is a Revelation; it is a message that has been consigned to us, and we have no right to reconstruct it as we like or choose.
From the great samurai philosopher Dr. Seuss:
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead,
and some come from behind.
But I’ve bought a big bat.
I’m all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Reflect on this and be at peace.
(much praise to my Silly Sister Sarah for sending me this quote)
As master samurai Miyamoto Musashi professed, true wisdom come from the void. In comtemplating it, all will be known. Thus, today, as special treat, I give you blogging of the void.
Master Reagan was to have said:
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Liberty is not a destination, but a constant battle. Ponder this well.
Master Reagan was to have said:
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors.
The enemy may harm us as they did three years ago today, but they can never destroy us for we are a people who cannot be defeated.
Samurai P.J. O’Rourke was to written in his tome Give War a Chance this wisdom about the Middle East:
Until 1918 the Arabian peninsula was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, so called because it had the same amount of intelligence and energy as a footstool. When the Turks backed the wrong horse in World War I, the French and English divvied up the region in a manner both completely self-serving and unbelievably haphazard, like monkeys at a salad bar. The huge, senseless notch in Jordan’s border with Saudi Arabia, for instance, is known as ‘Winston’s Hiccup’ because the then head of the British Colonial Office, Winston Churchill, is supposed to have drawn this line on a map after a very long lunch.
Okay, I only quoted that because I like the phrase “like monkeys at a salad bar.”
Dark Helmet, who is a parody of a character whose helmet is based on samurai gear, was to have said:
Evil will always triumph over good because good
is dumb.
Beware: this is the motto of the muckadoos! Do not be drawn in by their dark call… for they are dumb! Always keep in mind the most important thing: Merchandising!
