When that song was written in the 1970’s it was during the Vietnam conflict, there was much protest to that war. We all know why. People were being oppressed and we thought it was our duty as America to help those in need. While young men who were courageous enough to go fight someone else’s war went and died for a foreign country, there were the few cowards left behind here who continued to protest the war thinking that it was unjustified and we were killing innocent mothers and babies. They here thought that we were the monsters in the world. That big bad Uncle Sam liked to kill for killing sake. Theses people are our present day ACLU Lawyers. We all know what happened afterwards, lives lost, forgotten warriors.

Lets fast-forward to 2003. The same kind of evil is present in the world, just larger and spaced out over larger landscapes. It is undeniable that evils still is allowed to reside on this planet, we see it everyday when we turn on our TV. School shootings, murdered lovers, and famine in a third world country. And most recent the oppression of the Iraqi people. When President Bush decided to take actions against their dictator Saddam Hussein there was much opposition to it. Protestors claimed it was for oil, it was an old grudge that Bush’s father had; some even claimed that Saddam was innocent. While many others were happy to finally get a president with the guts to take on such an evil. We went to war with evil, and to my knowledge we won. That evil was dethroned and peace was resorted to the innocence of Iraq. But even after the major conflicts in that war was over people were still protesting our presses in Iraq, hundreds of US soldiers had died defending the freedom of people that they never knew, and hundreds of Iraqi’s died defending their way of life, war against the west. Many did die, and are still to this day, but one cannot say that what the United States did was wrong.

I know some people who are openly against our president. I don’t agree with their opinions but I still respect them. They have a right to it, they believe that Bush went straight into fighting and never gave peace a change. They claim that Bush is a war mongrel and that he is a bad person; to be blunt. I totally disagree but that’s ok. I do understand where they are coming from. What we want as a majority is peace for all and from all. That is why we form governments, why we have families, we have rules and laws. And it does work, until you get that few who doesn’t want it. They want their sinful ways and like to inflict pain and suffering on others, we call them sadists. Our president saw what was going on with Saddam and wanted things to be changed. He is a man of God and as that kind of man he is committed to the word of God. God has commanded us all to do many things, and one of those things is to “Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.” Psalm 82:3. Now you can choose not to believe the Bible, but I think that we can all agree that this verse is something that we all should take heed to and obey. If you think that we should disregard the feelings and sufferings of others then you are as guilty as the people responsible for the oppression.

Yes, attempting to make peace should always be the first answer, but as we can see it’s not always the first response. Evil men know what they are doing is wrong. That is what makes us human and separates us from the animal kingdom; we have the knowledge of good and evil; we obtained it when Adam and Eve bit into the fruit of the tree. Since then we know that we are sinning and we know when we are hurting others. Evil men through out history knew that they were oppressing the innocent but they did nothing to stop it. Their knowledge of peace was their first warning. When evil doesn’t want to give peace a change the next step is to take military action by the innocent, which was done in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Gulf War in 1991, and the recent war again in 2003.