What Is It We're Doing There Again?

Enjoy our new song about escalation in Afghanistan, the changing rationales for it, and the absence of a consensus on what winning really looks like.

The footage is from Brave New Films' excellent Rethink Afghanistan series.

What Is It We're Doing There Again?[download the mp3]

Do you remember when the bomber first flew over?With a mission and a target square in its eyeBefore they asked for twice as many soldiersBefore we'd have to see 1300 dieWhen circumstances dip into a downswingThe $, days and the deaths keep ticking upA laundry list of motives ever growingThe more I hear the less that they're enough

Do you know what success, it ought to look like in the endWhat do you do when the fight, it don't go nothing like you plannedTell me what it is we're doing there again

Victory, it will always prove elusiveWith the vagaries of when, why and howSo who can blame us if we've grown a bit dismissiveAnother day another rationale

Do you know what success, it ought to look like in the endWhat do we do with this long list of beginnings without endsTell me what it is we're doing there again

If it still makes sense, here in the present tenseit has to be worth reexaminingThe caskets all come home filled with blood and boneSacrificed to flimsy reasoningHow many will we send before this is at its endTell me what it is we're doing there again

--Max and the Marginalized are a political band from LA with a liberal bent. They record a lot of songs and play a lot of shows.

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