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Entry: Have a Patriotic Independence Day Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/have_a_patriotic_independence_day#2176 Post contents: John, your girlfriend's right about when the song was written, and about Keith's current stand on the Iraq war, but he didn't oppose it from the beginning, and the song was widely played on country radio in the run-up to the Iraq war. And today, of course, it has been completely abstracted from its historical context and become just another jingoistic country song. (Don't get me wrong--I've actually been a fan of jingoistic country songs over the years, such as Charlie Daniel's "Never Did Think (In America)" or the song whose title and singer I can't recall, back in 1980, which began "Dear Mr. Ayatollah, I know you think we're yella...") Beyond that, though, any Catholic who believes in the Church's just-war theory (as you and I both do) can't help but have some discomfort concerning Keith's lyrics, even as applied to Afghanistan. Sent at: 2008 09 07