Bombs Away (tragedy in one act)
It’s been over 50 years since Bob Dylan wrote and first performed “Masters of War.” Millions of people have heard the song and many have applauded it; but judging by world events the song has had less peacemongering effect than a hill of beans. That’s because people, including me, thought it was enough to voice disapproval in eloquent terms, and didn’t take the message as a call to action beyond the pianissimo “You tell em, Bob Dylan–we’re with you–we’re gonna march on Washington; just you wait and see.”
Knowledge is power. How many Americans know the name Sarkis Soghanalian, an ACTUAL Master of War, and his tango with Spiro Agnew, disgraced former Vice President of the United States, and his later tango with the Clinton administration? Finding out is a mere Internet search away. Go ahead–I dare you.
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Reblogged this on DK0blivion and commented:
Bombs Away
Thanks for reblogging, DK0blivion–this one really means a lot to me, and I am glad you facilitate its wider distribution.
I could never resist a dare… 😉
Lord of war was a great movie. As Roger would have said, a perfect role for Nicholas Cage and his madness.
In Tintin, l’Oreille Cassé, our hero meets up with Basil Zaharoff, a role model for Soghanalian, no doubt, happily selling arms on both sides of the conflict. Zaharoff seems more classy, but that was the end of the nineteenth century for you; selling machine guns to kill the grunts in the trenches in the most inhuman way possible, and frolicking with princesses and founding institutes. When the upper classes ‘knew’ the lower classes where barely human… if they ever thought of them at all. That’s one class system I’m glad is over (or at least transformed).
Two movies I have yet to see, but I hope to remedy that cultural lack of mine soon. Thanks, friend!