As pointed out the song is inspired by the Wilfred Owen poem Dulce et Decorum est and parallels the futility of dying for ones country in WW1 as accounted for by Owen, with the unquestioning desire of the western world for going into Afghanistan to give the Taliban a good whacking post 9/11 (“Stop, I said its happening again”)
Its an anti war song.
As pointed out the song is inspired by the Wilfred Owen poem Dulce et Decorum est and parallels the futility of dying for ones country in WW1 as accounted for by Owen, with the unquestioning desire of the western world for going into Afghanistan to give the Taliban a good whacking post 9/11 (“Stop, I said its happening again”)