All you folks criticizing this song as "anti-American" and "Communist" need to chill. In 1991, Soviet Communism had drawn its last breath and Russia was becoming democratized. America was still viewed positively by most people around the world. We thought we were a decade or two away from solving the problems of famine and disease. At the time it had been nearly two decades since America's last war.
So Operation Desert Storm (the First Gulf War) was kind of a shock to most of us Gen X/Y kids. That's right, we actually thought America going to war was a BAD thing. Back then we weren't so desensitized by violent video games and first person shooters with realistic graphics. Watching the anti-aircraft tracer rounds shooting at our planes, bombs blowing up Iraqi civilians and reading stories about our troops being shot at with Scud missiles actually bothered us. America was supposed to be defined by its prosperity and its moral example, not by the wars she fought or her enemies.
This was THE anti-war song of the 1990s. And it still stands now. If you grew up under Bush II, you might have some trouble understanding the mentality, but trust me, we were all peace-loving "hippies" and "traitors"(by the neocon definition) back then. It was simply called believing in a better future. Gotta wonder where we went so wrong!
All you folks criticizing this song as "anti-American" and "Communist" need to chill. In 1991, Soviet Communism had drawn its last breath and Russia was becoming democratized. America was still viewed positively by most people around the world. We thought we were a decade or two away from solving the problems of famine and disease. At the time it had been nearly two decades since America's last war.
So Operation Desert Storm (the First Gulf War) was kind of a shock to most of us Gen X/Y kids. That's right, we actually thought America going to war was a BAD thing. Back then we weren't so desensitized by violent video games and first person shooters with realistic graphics. Watching the anti-aircraft tracer rounds shooting at our planes, bombs blowing up Iraqi civilians and reading stories about our troops being shot at with Scud missiles actually bothered us. America was supposed to be defined by its prosperity and its moral example, not by the wars she fought or her enemies.
This was THE anti-war song of the 1990s. And it still stands now. If you grew up under Bush II, you might have some trouble understanding the mentality, but trust me, we were all peace-loving "hippies" and "traitors"(by the neocon definition) back then. It was simply called believing in a better future. Gotta wonder where we went so wrong!