The fertile crescent contains much of present-day Iraq, Kuwait and Israel/Palestine. I'm guessing that this song was written in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and subsequent gulf war, putting an end to the extremely naive notion that following the collapse of the USSR, some kind of New World Order was going to perpetuate peace. Agression and retaliation create further conflict, false/arbitrary boundaries (invisible lines) rationalize hatred, etc., etc. Pretty standard BR
The fertile crescent contains much of present-day Iraq, Kuwait and Israel/Palestine. I'm guessing that this song was written in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and subsequent gulf war, putting an end to the extremely naive notion that following the collapse of the USSR, some kind of New World Order was going to perpetuate peace. Agression and retaliation create further conflict, false/arbitrary boundaries (invisible lines) rationalize hatred, etc., etc. Pretty standard BR