Deja Vu All Over Again

We've got to protect all our citizens fair
So we'll send a battalion for everyone there
And maybe we'll leave in a couple of years
'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World

My first reaction to these lyrics was, whoa - that Phil Ochs was one prophetic songwriter. Of course, it occurred to me that it's less a prophecy than the US warmongers not learning their lessons from Vietnam. But then, can you blame them? Hardly any of them went.

**UPDATED 5:00pm**

Prophet Phil strikes again:
one thing you gotta see
That someone's gotta go over there
but that someone isn't me
So I wish you well, Sarge, give 'em Hell
Yeah kill me a thousand or more
And if you ever get a war without blood and gore
Well I'll be the first to go

Here are some of the excuses used by the chickenhawks to avoid active duty.

BTW for a good laugh, read Rolling Stone's chronicle of Desperate Dick Cheney's attempts to avoid Vietnam.