My point exactly. Given the album it's on, it's possible the song is about the Afghanistan war. OTOH, I hadn't heard it getting any airplay this time last year. (Which is about the time i first heard "I Miss my friend")
Some people. No objection here to finding Bin Ladin. But Bin Ladin isn't Hussein. And from what our op-ed page is showing, 90% of the folks in these parts don't care.
From the NY Times OP-ed page: As one savvy official observed, occupying Baghdad comes at an "unpardonable expense in terms of money, lives lost and ruined regional relationships." Another expert put it this way: "We should not march into Baghdad. . . . To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero . . . assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability."
Those comments may overemphasize the risks, but they are from top-notch analysts whose judgments I respect. The first comment was made by Colin Powell in a Foreign Affairs essay in 1992; the second is in "A World Transformed," a 1998 book by the first President Bush.
--Nicholas D. Kristof, "Losses, Before Bullets Fly" NYT Times 3/7/03
I could do without hearing that song or Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue" again. But I'll take the jingoism over rap which literally sets my teeth on edge. The stresses are in exactly the wrong places, the beat jars me and I find most of the lyrics are offensive. At least on country stations they'll bleep the line "Put a boot up your ass."
Personally, I think Alan Jackson handled it best with "Where were you when the world stopped turning."
Given the album it's on, it's possible the song is about the Afghanistan war. OTOH, I hadn't heard it getting any airplay this time last year. (Which is about the time i first heard "I Miss my friend")
Some people. No objection here to finding Bin Ladin. But Bin Ladin isn't Hussein. And from what our op-ed page is showing, 90% of the folks in these parts don't care.
From the NY Times OP-ed page:
As one savvy official observed, occupying Baghdad comes at an "unpardonable expense in terms of money, lives lost and ruined regional relationships." Another expert put it this way: "We should not march into Baghdad. . . . To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero . . . assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability."
Those comments may overemphasize the risks, but they are from top-notch analysts whose judgments I respect. The first comment was made by Colin Powell in a Foreign Affairs essay in 1992; the second is in "A World Transformed," a 1998 book by the first President Bush.
--Nicholas D. Kristof, "Losses, Before Bullets Fly" NYT Times 3/7/03
I could do without hearing that song or Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue" again. But I'll take the jingoism over rap which literally sets my teeth on edge. The stresses are in exactly the wrong places, the beat jars me and I find most of the lyrics are offensive. At least on country stations they'll bleep the line "Put a boot up your ass."
Personally, I think Alan Jackson handled it best with "Where were you when the world stopped turning."
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