Syria 2013 by David Rovics

Another timely ditty from David Rovics.

Syria, 2013 By David Rovics

There's an uncivil war in Syria, one hundred thousand dead

Millions of refugees without a roof over their heads

Proxy armies flowing in to a country open wide

You got Al-Qaeda and America fighting side by side

You got Saudi monarchs and French socialists on one team

You got Russia and Iran backing the regime

You got the Arab League having another meaningless debate

Saying let's just see what happens if we wait

But now the west says gloves are off, it's all become too real

Now Cameron and Obama are dictating the deal

Now red lines have been crossed, now it's time to act

Now it's time to have a few million tons of impact

Now it's time to do the thing that the west does best

Time to step in the hornet's nest

We don't know who did it, but there has been a war crime

So we'll bomb an Arab country one more time

What we know is this: there was a chemical attack

Kinda like the ones that happened in Iraq

Like the white phosphorous we used on the people of Falluja

Or the chemicals we sold to Saddam for Halabja

But this time it's a different story, this poison gas in Gouta

Our allies would never do this, those foreign fighters in Al-Qaeda

We don't know who did it, but there has been a war crime

So we'll bomb an Arab country one more time

We don't know who did it, but we know who to blame

The Baathists are the party, Bashar Asad is the name

We don't know who did it, we can figure that out later

Meanwhile we'll turn Damascus into a smart bomb crater

We'll fix them with Cruise missiles, like in Baghdad and Mosul

Where they now have peace, prosperity and democratic rule

We don't know who did it, but there has been a war crime

So we'll bomb an Arab country one more time

Authored by Chris Hall

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