The Death of War [Track 10]

This entire track is just two verses.

Jacques Rousseau's political philosophy influenced the french revolution.

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Black Water is a company that hires and trains mercenaries that were widely used in the Iraq war. They changed their name to Xe (pronounced "Z") because, naturally, their name and public image was tarnished.

Solon

"Reform like Solon in the Parthenon." Solon was an ancient Athenian statesmen who instituted agrarian reforms (like Tiberius Gracchus did). "Destroy Sauron, roll like Arogon" is a Lord of the Rings reference. Sauron is the evil wizard and Aragorn leads the fellowship of the ring. "Whirl wind with the pen like M. Shamalon" is referring to the movie Air Bender which was still not in theaters when I wrote this.

"Obama just a pawn of U.S. pentagon cuz Wolfowitz wrote a neo-Monroe doctrine so, profit flow grow dough for forever with power unfettered." This is referring to a whole lot of American military history in a small segment. When I wrote this Obama hadn't made any serious steps toward changing the direction of foreign policy that the Bush administration left in place. Regardless of this our president is a pawn of the military establishment (U.S. Pentagon) because the Wolfowitz Doctrine is a contemporary Monroe Doctrine that protects American imperialism. 

Paul Wolfawitz

Neo means post or "second." So when people talk about the "neo-cons" they are talking about neo-conservative or what being conservative mean now (politically), compared to what it did mean. The Monroe doctrine was a military plan to prevent European intervention in the Americas and was introduced by President James Monroe in 1823. The Wolfawit's Doctrine is a private government document that leaked to the New York Times. The proposal sparked controversy and was criticized for being imperialistic, outlining preemptive military action to prevent any other nation from rising to super-power status. In essence, the document allowed American foreign policy to enforce the U.S. military as the sole world super-power.

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"Cause the Budget grew for Project new, American century steer'n the industry." The Project for a New American century PNAC was a think tank whose members included such leaders as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Richard Pearl. From the beginning in 1997 this group advocated conflict and the invasion of Iraq. Knowing this group's motivations, it is obvious to see why we ended up in Iraq although there was no connections between Iraq and 9/11 or Iraq and WMDs (Weapon of Mass Destruction). To me, it is easy to see that the Bush administration, with the help of an unquestioning media, blatantly lied about intelligence initiatives to fulfill a pre-conceived plan thought-up years in advance. 

"Slither like snakes, com hither the apes are change'n our fate, and lett’n Hitler escape." This lyric is a reference to the Edulution track which compares our behaviors to that of a monkey/ape.

The Death of War is largely based of the documentary "Why We Fight" and is about ending the propagation of war by realizing it is a religiously driven motivation. However, the dogma is profit accumulation with no real regard for the human cost or the inter-generational tyranny of investing America’s infrastructure, and therefore future, into a system of destruction and death. 

In order for America to succeed in it’s removal of detrimental influence, it would have to rid itself of corporate entrenchment; specifically that of, what Dwight D. Eisenhower would call, “The Military-Industrial-Complex.” This is exemplified in “The Death of War” by metaphorically killing Dick Cheney who is the quintessential example personifying the corruption and entrenchment of big business and government.

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