America the Battleful: Oh Beautiful for Endless Wars!

By Donald A. Smith, PhD. Using my own lyrics and Suno.com for the music, I created this variation of America the Beautiful. Imagine that it's sung by a neoconservative or by, say, the CEO of Lockheed Martin. Also available on youtube here and on Rumble here. 

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O beautiful for endless wars,            Oh beautiful for arms races               Oh beautiful for wars provoked,
For searing waves of pain,               Whose profits are immense,                By coups and covert schemes.
For vicious bombing travesties           For bombs and guns yield ample funds,     For C.I.A.-armed militias,
Above the ravaged plain!                 At peoples' great expense.                For cover-ups obscene.
America, America                         America, America,                         America, America,
God shed his tears on thee.              Your war machine marches on,              The war drums never cease.
And crown falsehood with orphanhood      Exploiting fears for countless years,     And those who die can't question why,
From sea to blood-drenched sea!          With lives and truth undone.              While living folks are fleeced.

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Oh beautiful for blinding lies,          Oh beautiful for endless lies,
That fuel the war machine,               Disguised as noble cause,
With flags unfurled and hatred hurled    For glory sung by silver tongue
The truth is rarely seen.                And arms merchants' applause.
America, America,                        America, America,
Your leaders fan the flames,             Your dreams were made malign.
And in the din of hate and lies,         The land of the free is now merely
They play their deadly game.             An empire in decline.

Here is a different version of the song above, with a different melody.

Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say:
The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine

For example, Jack Matlock (former U.S. Ambassador to the USSR under Ronald Reagan) said in a 2024 interview: "Why don’t we understand that trying to remove Ukraine from Russian influence and put military bases there would be, in their case, absolutely unacceptable and worthy of defense?" Matlock said the U.S. backed the 2014 coup, and "Obviously, to any Russian leader, not just Vladimir Putin, that would have been an absolutely impossible, hostile act, which they had to react to. And in particular, they were not going to lose their naval base in Crimea." Finally, Matlock said the Ukrainians are "dominated in their thinking by neo-Nazis — we tend to ignore that, or when Putin points it out, we say he’s lying. He’s not lying."

U.S. hypocrisy is absolutely stunning, since it invaded and bombed countries all over the world (e.g., Iraq) for flimsy reasons, often allying with Muslim extremists (e.g., Afghanistan in 80s, Serbia, Libya, and Syria). The U.S. occupies 1/3 of Syria (the parts with oil), with help from its proxy army, the Syrian Defense Forces. Russia's invasion was along its borders, in response to CIA and NATO meddling in a country with deep historical, linguistic, and cultural ties to Russia. U.S. meddling included "engineering" the 2014 coup, according to Chas. W. Freeman, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lifetime Director of the Atlantic Council. Crimea had voted multiple times for closer ties to Russia. The U.S. exploited divisions in Ukraine between pro-Western and pro-Russian provinces and groups to provoke the war. RAND Corporation recommended arming Ukraine as the best way to "weaken and overextend" Russia and predicted it would result in a war. Anti-Russian, far-right militias armed by the U.S. were attacking Russian speakers in the east. Before the 2022 invasion, the militias increased their bombings.

See other music: Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism, Part One.
Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars,
Bending Over for Dearest Uncle Sam
Endless War Blues,
Windy City Protests -- from Vietnam in '68 to Gaza in '24,
No More Blood For Their Endless War: an antiwar folk song made with AI,
Machinery of Death (death metal song),
No More Stupid Wars!,
Lesser of Two Evils Blues,
Eisenohower warns about the Military-Industrial Complex,
Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism.
and Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.

Puppet of Uncle Sam

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