Cold War Suite from How It Happens (The Voice of I.F. Stone), Perfect Weapon
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We Americans, we Americans have lived in a country
That's been very successful technologically
And we instinctively think, we instinctively think
That every problem must have a technological solution
The atom bomb was supposed to be a perfect weapon
The atom bomb gave us nuclear superiority for quite a while
And please notice that in that period of nuclear superiority
It was the first time America had ever
Been kicked around and lost a war
To, to some little two-by-five country across the Pacific
And the Russians today in Afghanistan
With all their nuclear superiority
What good does it do them?
The weapon, the wonder-working weapon
The weapon, the wonder-working weapon has to work
We're starving education
And the recruits are getting dumber
And the weapons are getting more and more complicated
How the hell you gonna run 'em?
That's been very successful technologically
And we instinctively think, we instinctively think
That every problem must have a technological solution
The atom bomb was supposed to be a perfect weapon
The atom bomb gave us nuclear superiority for quite a while
And please notice that in that period of nuclear superiority
It was the first time America had ever
Been kicked around and lost a war
To, to some little two-by-five country across the Pacific
And the Russians today in Afghanistan
With all their nuclear superiority
What good does it do them?
The weapon, the wonder-working weapon
The weapon, the wonder-working weapon has to work
We're starving education
And the recruits are getting dumber
And the weapons are getting more and more complicated
How the hell you gonna run 'em?