Uncle Sam is Addicted to War -- We Gotta Stage an Intervention
By Donald A. Smith, PhD. Using my lyrics and suno.com for the music, I created this song about America's addiction to war.
[Verse] It's time to face the facts, we can't keep turning away, Uncle Sam’s got a problem, and it's growing every day. He keeps launching stupid wars, avoidable and wrong, And even though they usually fail, he just keeps fighting on. [Chorus] Uncle Sam, we’re begging, lay down your sword, You’re addicted to war, can't hide it anymore. Lies stacked on lies, you’re digging all our graves, It’s time for an intervention. Oh the lives and money we could save! [Verse] Vietnam was a nightmare, millions dead in the fields. Dirty wars in Latin lands: more injustice, more lies revealed. Assassinations, bombings, invasions, coups. Indonesia lost a million, there is no excuse. [Chorus] Uncle Sam, we’re begging, lay down your sword, You’re addicted to war, can't hide it anymore. Lies stacked on lies, you’re digging all our graves, It’s time for an intervention. Oh the lives and money we could save! [Verse] Iraq and Afghanistan, more blood, more lies. And when we learned the truth, Sam never apologized. You provoked the war in Ukraine, with a coup and covert schemes, with CIA-armed militias and cover-ups obscene. [Chorus] Uncle Sam, we’re begging, lay down your sword, You’re addicted to war, can't hide it anymore. Lies stacked on lies, you’re digging all our graves, It’s time for an intervention. Oh the lives and money we could save! [Verse] Serbia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and all the rest, Every conflict claimed to be for freeing the oppressed. But when the truth comes out, that it was a war of choice. No one is ever held accountable, and the neocons rejoice. [Chorus] Uncle Sam, we’re begging, lay down your sword, You’re addicted to war, can't hide it anymore. Lies stacked on lies, you’re digging all our graves, It’s time for an intervention. Oh the lives and money we could save! [Verse] He says he’s protecting freedom, but what’s it really for? Trillions in corporate profits, and they keep asking for more! Four and a half million souls killed, since just 9/11. Eight trillion dollars wasted. It stinks to high heaven! [Chorus] Uncle Sam, we’re begging, lay down your sword, You’re addicted to war, can't hide it anymore. Lies stacked on lies, you’re digging all our graves, It’s time for an intervention. Oh the lives and money we could save! [Verse] You're arming Netanyahu, in his war of genocidal abandon. Targeting civilians, with millions on the brink of famine, Against Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and, soon, Iran. And now you're planning for war with China, over Taiwan. [Outro] Uncle Sam, this is it, the truth’s at the door, We can’t keep the silence as you wage more war. So lay down your arms, find peace in your heart, Let this be the end, and let a new chapter start. |
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Senior U.S. diplomats, journalists, academics and Secretaries of Defense say:
The U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine
U.S. hypocrisy about the war in Ukraine is absolutely stunning, given that 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. The U.S. also armed far-right militias that were attacking Russian speakers in the east. Before the 2022 invasion, the militias increased their bombings. 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. The New Yorker reported that the CIA and NSA engaged in a broad "effort, around the time of the invasion, to close off many 'sources related to Russia/Ukraine matters.'"
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."
Other music:
America the Battleful (Oh Beautiful for Endless Wars!)
We are Spending Two Trillion Dollars on Weapons That Must Never Be Used
We Can't Compete with China, So Let's Provoke a War
Thomas Merton's Prayer for Peace
Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism, Part One
The Unholy Land has Genocide
Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars
Bending Over for Dearest Uncle Sam
Endless War Blues
The-Endless War Blues (different version)
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
The-Lesser of Two Evils Blues (longer, different version)
Eisenhower warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism
War is a Racket (Smedley Butler Song)
and Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.