The armies, the difference of all of those armies that had been fighting each other and the Taliban took advantage of that to rule over the whole country.

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The magnificent army that fought in Desert Storm is a great army, and it still is a magnificent army today. But it was one we designed for the Cold War, and the Cold War has been over for ten years now.

quote by Eric Shinseki
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Peace lasts till the army comes, and the army lasts till peace comes.

Russian proverbs
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Seals Captured No Killed Osama Bin Laden?

If you go down to Virginia Beach your sure of a big surprise
navy seals are playing videos of shooting unarmed Bin Ladin?
USA proudly cheering shooting this 53 year old unarmed man
before his wife's eyes as peering out of his bedroom window?

the best America has got could not capture an unarmed old man
could not capture a woman without shooting her first in the leg?
yes navy seals cannot capture one married couple is a surprise
they claimed a Jihad hero used his wife as a shield told gross lies?

as Obama said they located then killed on his watch by his orders
Bin Laden political assassination aim to seal Obama's reelection?
Bin Laden's body not buried within 24 hours dumped in the sea
no photographic or DNA evidence of Bin Laden's death released?

Operation Neptune Spear the elite seal team six kill operation
under the control of the Central Intelligence Agency equipped;
with military assault rifles with attached silencer suppressors
body armor night-vision goggles and handguns plays assassins;

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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The Voice

I dreamed a Voice, of one God-authorised,
Cried loudly thro’ the world, ‘Disarm! Disarm! ’
And there was consernation in the camps;
And men who strutted under braid and lace
Beat on their medalled breasts, and wailed,
‘Undone! ’
The word was echoed from a thousand hills,
And shop and mill, and factory and forge,
Where throve the awful industries of death,
Hushed into silence. Scrawled upon the doors,
The passer read, ‘Peace bids her children
Starve.’
But foolish women clasped their little sons
And wept for joy, not reasoning like men.

Again the Voice commanded: ‘Now go forth
And build a world for Progress and for Peace.
This world had waited since the earth was
Shaped;
But men were fighting, and they could not

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poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Peace lasts until the army comes, and the army lasts until peace comes.

Russian proverbs
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An Old Soldier's Closet

The old soldier's closet holds memorabilia
in which he enjoys to reminisce and browse,
and thoughts of his military service to the
Nation gradually begins to rouse.

This is a closet where moth balls abound
with hangers of uniforms from former bases
still neatly pressed and offering him
an imaginary trip to former world places.

The old soldier's uniforms hanging there
suggests an earlier military styling
and instantly his present thoughts
with his past service is reconciling.

Staring at all the military paraphernalia
transfers him from this modern plane -
with teary eyes and a spirit of humbleness,
he is a dedicated soldier again.

poem by Joseph T. Renaldi
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A Peace Carrier, Sapporo's Jieitai

Ever seen an army
Taking care of trees?
Army men, all smiley
Kindly care for kids?

Searching woods and mountains
To save people's lives
Instead of filling up fountains
With blood, or give painful cries?

Come see with own eyes
Such army that rise
To melt people's hearts
With sculptures of ice.

Sweating for a smile
Sapporo's Jieitai
Works hard for a month
to show how an army
can be nice and kind.

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poem by Elena Sandu
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In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac.

quote by James Longstreet
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

quote by Alexander the Great
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Forewarned is fore armed.

English proverbs
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An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

African proverbs
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It is useless to send armies against ideas.

quote by Georg Brandes
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The sergeant is the Army.

quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Army of the Rear

I listened through the music and the sounds of revelry,
And all the hollow noises of that year of Jubilee;
I heard beyond the music and beyond the local cheer,
The steady tramp of thousands that were marching in the rear.
Tramp! tramp! tramp!
They seem to shake the air,
Those never-ceasing footsteps of the outcasts in the rear.
I heard defiance ringing from the men of rags and dirt,
I heard wan woman singing that sad “Song of the Shirt”,
And o’er the sounds of menace and moaning low and drear,
I heard the steady tramping of their feet along the rear.
Tramp! tramp! tramp!
Vibrating in the air —
They’re swelling fast, those footsteps of the Army of the Rear!

I hate the wrongs I read about, I hate the wrongs I see!
The tramping of that army sounds as music unto me!
A music that is terrible, that frights the anxious ear,
Is beaten from the weary feet that tramp along the rear.
Tramp! tramp! tramp!

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poem by Henry Lawson
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Armies in the Fire

The lamps now glitter down the street;
Faintly sound the falling feet;
And the blue even slowly falls
About the garden trees and walls.

Now in the falling of the gloom
The red fire paints the empty room:
And warmly on the roof it looks,
And flickers on the back of books.

Armies march by tower and spire
Of cities blazing, in the fire;--
Till as I gaze with staring eyes,
The armies fall, the lustre dies.

Then once again the glow returns;
Again the phantom city burns;
And down the red-hot valley, lo!
The phantom armies marching go!

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poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

quote by Boris Pasternak
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A Loving Wife

A bomb with a memory
'Thats armed'

poem by Barry A. Lanier
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

quote by Arthur Eddington
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You go to war with the Army you have. They're not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

quote by Donald Rumsfeld
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