 | GenghisTheHun (181)
01/18/2008 | This is an angry Bob Dylan tune against the munitions industry. It is not so much anti-war as it is against those who profit financially from war. President Eisenhower had just left the Presidency with a blast at the military-industrial complex. Unfortunately Kennedy and later Johnson didn't listen and got us trapped into the Viet Nam War.
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 | irishgit (155)
04/23/2007 | To me, this is Dylan's most untypical song. He abandons the oblique, often surreal poetry of his normal style for this blunt, uncompromising and angry number.
Not a big favorite of mine, but it certainly gets the point across.
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 | Drummond (60)
03/17/2006 | Everybody loves this song, but I think it's a bit trite and dogmatic - out of character for Dylan except maybe in comparison to some of the songs on Slow Train Coming. It lacks his usual finesse - even The Times They Are a Changing has more subtlety.
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