'The eastern world, it is explodin'
Violence flarin' bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin?
And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin'
But you tell me, over and over again and over again, my friend
Ah, you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction.'
(Barry McGuire, The Eve of Destruction, 1965)
The spirit of this song, sadly, is so apt today.
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