In one aspect reminded me of the old Buffy St Marie song – Universal Soldier
'He's five feet two and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
He's a catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jane
A Buddhist and a Baptist and Jew
And he knows he shouldn't kill and he knows he always will
You'll for me my friend and me for you
And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France
He's fighting for the usa
And he's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way
And he's fighting for democracy he's fighting for the reds
He says it's for the peace of all
He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die
And he never sees the writing on the wall
But without him how would Hitler have condemned him at Le Val
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He's the one who gives his body as the weapon of the war
And without him all this killing can't go on
He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame
But his orders come from far away no more
They come from him and you and me and brothers can't you see
This is not the way we put an end to war?'
Its got some good lines of poetry even if the overall thinking is woolly and misses that we live in a fallen world and that people like Hitler would have happily done their damage with policemen and prison guards (who needs soldiers per se when you are dealing with civilians) so maybe another song was needed condemning them too. A totally pacifist response to Hitler would have certainly left no Jewish people in the world, Slavs, disabled etc etc
