“With God On Our Side” by Bob Dylan was released in 1964 on his album The Times They are A-Changin’. It think that song echoed the feelings of many of us that the world seemed to be headed for self-annihilation.
I was thinking about the song yesterday while working in the garden, some 40 years after its release. It doesn’t seem that the world is as close to nuclear war as it was then. If we take it that the end of the cold war and collapse of the Soviet Union alleviated that threat, then maybe god was on our side, if you give, as is currently popular, President Reagan some of the credit for that. But we paid the price.
God in fact punished us because Reagan was president and the policies he and his cronies encouraged, and implemented through legislation and decrees, have done nothing but hurt this country for 20 years or more.
It’s a good song, though. “Masters of War” on Freewheelin Bob Dylan is another great one – with Dick Cheney being the poster boy for that song.
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