Just saw SOAD yesterday at the last show of the Big Day Out here in Perth, and they were fuckin awesome. The meaning of this song is pretty easy to see when you look at the tshirts they were selling, which had the words 'Mine bigger than yours' over a picture of a howitzer (artillery gun) like the ones the US Army has. What I interpret this to be saying is that the US government is basically in a dick measuring contest with the other countries of the world, and is asserting its 'superiority' through intimidation with the threat (and in the case of iraq, fulfilling that threat) of military action (invasion, occupation). The same thing is happening with North Korea. I alse agree entirely with Renegrenade's comments.
Just saw SOAD yesterday at the last show of the Big Day Out here in Perth, and they were fuckin awesome. The meaning of this song is pretty easy to see when you look at the tshirts they were selling, which had the words 'Mine bigger than yours' over a picture of a howitzer (artillery gun) like the ones the US Army has. What I interpret this to be saying is that the US government is basically in a dick measuring contest with the other countries of the world, and is asserting its 'superiority' through intimidation with the threat (and in the case of iraq, fulfilling that threat) of military action (invasion, occupation). The same thing is happening with North Korea. I alse agree entirely with Renegrenade's comments.