The guy in the song is already strongly anti-war. It may be a very personal song.
He's frustrated with the fact that mainstream politicians and media in the USA do not recognize their own crimes - they mourn their own losses, but they don't care about the thousands upon thousands of people they kill abroad.
He feel powerless and hopeless to change the society in which he lives, and is ashamed of himself that he has resorted to thinking about revenge instead of doing something positive.
He ridicules the mainstream media for being cheerleaders for power.
Towards the end of the song, he questions why he should mourn "dead americans" since they are the perpetrators of imperial crimes and deserve no respect.
I think the US army are ultimately our friends in the struggle, not our enemies, since they are swindled and exploited too. Propagandhi probably shares this feeling - listen to their "Die Jungen Maschiert". I can understand why some would feel that way, though.
"The executioner's willing citizens" is taken from the title of the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners". In this case it basically means that american soldiers and even american civilians share responsibility in crimes of their governments.
"Chickens came home to roost" may refer to Malcolm X's comments about the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. It means that, no shit, if you brutalize the world for hundreds of years, some people will push back.
"Arab kids slaughtered" implies the song is specifically about the "war on terror".
The guy in the song is already strongly anti-war. It may be a very personal song.
He's frustrated with the fact that mainstream politicians and media in the USA do not recognize their own crimes - they mourn their own losses, but they don't care about the thousands upon thousands of people they kill abroad.
He feel powerless and hopeless to change the society in which he lives, and is ashamed of himself that he has resorted to thinking about revenge instead of doing something positive. He ridicules the mainstream media for being cheerleaders for power. Towards the end of the song, he questions why he should mourn "dead americans" since they are the perpetrators of imperial crimes and deserve no respect.
I think the US army are ultimately our friends in the struggle, not our enemies, since they are swindled and exploited too. Propagandhi probably shares this feeling - listen to their "Die Jungen Maschiert". I can understand why some would feel that way, though.
"The executioner's willing citizens" is taken from the title of the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners". In this case it basically means that american soldiers and even american civilians share responsibility in crimes of their governments.
"Chickens came home to roost" may refer to Malcolm X's comments about the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. It means that, no shit, if you brutalize the world for hundreds of years, some people will push back.
"Arab kids slaughtered" implies the song is specifically about the "war on terror".