An Isolationist America Is No Bloody Use

We've Heard So Much About The American Dream: Well, Trump Is The American Nightmare Made Flesh. All The Things About 'the Ugly American' That We Worry About And Which The Americans See In Themselves, It's All Of That. This Is A Politics Of Egotistical Display.

I've Had Songs Written During The Falklands War, And During The First Gulf War I Got Letters From Soldiers Saying They Were Listening To These Songs, Like Island Of No Return.

There Are Quite A Few Honest Songwriters Out There Writing About Relationships And Their Own Personality Traits. But For Some Reason, Once They Step Out Of The Bedroom, Their Honesty Doesn't Seem To Come With Them.

If You Can't See That The Glass Is Half Full, You Can Never Be A Socialist. You Have To Believe In The Goodness Of The Majority Of People To Be A Socialist. You Have To Believe That If The Majority Of People Had Their Way, They Would Make A Society That Would Be Fair For Everyone. If You Don't Believe That, And If You Think That The Glass Is Always Half Empty, Then You're Never Going To Have That Sensibility.

We Have Laws To Deal With People Who Defame Other People's Religion. We Have Laws To Deal With People Who Try To Blow Up Our Citizens. We Have Due Process. We Have Laws To Deal With People Who We Capture During Combat And War, But Somehow Guantanamo Bay Seems To Be Outside All That. And Perhaps It's Being Maintained With The View To What People Are Talking About Now, This Idea Of The "long War," That This Is Going To Go On And On, And Perhaps Iran Is Going To Be Next.