The Cuban Missile Crisis and our current political situation isn't exactly a historic parallel, but I swear if you changed the words in several of these stanzas I would never have known it wasn't written today.
The endless driving of the idea that the average american is in imminent danger, the bizarre acceptance of war as part of everyday life (so much that it is as normal as advertising, which we also have a weird acceptance of if you think about it), the rest of the rational world being left wishing they could leave the planet.
What particularly strikes me are the lines "Let's sink Cuba into the sea- and bring them back democracy!" They're the same contrasting values in Republicans regarding Iraq- many say their support for the war is so we can "bring freedom" to the country, and others clearly just want to bomb the crap out of it to kill the "terrorists" there.
The Cuban Missile Crisis and our current political situation isn't exactly a historic parallel, but I swear if you changed the words in several of these stanzas I would never have known it wasn't written today.
The endless driving of the idea that the average american is in imminent danger, the bizarre acceptance of war as part of everyday life (so much that it is as normal as advertising, which we also have a weird acceptance of if you think about it), the rest of the rational world being left wishing they could leave the planet.
What particularly strikes me are the lines "Let's sink Cuba into the sea- and bring them back democracy!" They're the same contrasting values in Republicans regarding Iraq- many say their support for the war is so we can "bring freedom" to the country, and others clearly just want to bomb the crap out of it to kill the "terrorists" there.