Blackmail The Universe

This is breaking news It appears that Air Force One was shot down Somewhere over the Middle East this morning By a sleeper cell of rogue terrorists, firing a Stinger Missile The pilot and all passengers are unaccounted for The President's whereabouts are presently unknown And he is presumed missing The Vice President, Secretary of State And principles of the military are assembling Our nation stands at DEFCON 3 The greatest crisis, will someone come for me? I, red, white and blew it Unleashed revenge, my body is detained How could anybody do this? Betrayal, I peel away the days Medals are useless, Uncle Sam's forgotten me I'm not important no one will ever come I'll never be found, God get me out of this hell Nuclear battlefields energized Cold wars are heating up again The tensions mounting People lift up your fists in revenge The stage is set Who will be the first to blink? We can't go to war Remember that Vietnam thing Peace at any price With a gun to your head, bang, bang Weakness runs in your family What runs in mine is death This is your five-minute warning Burn all your classified documents And if cooler heads don't prevail First strike from a political dead man Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive He understands only one language, action And he respects only one word, force No sign of them stopping, no time for back channel communiqués We need all the help we can get, air strikes and invasions Retaliate, I say The will of good men can not counter the terrible strain of war Blackmail the universe with the greatest of calamities Awaken those sleeping giants in the dust of the ground With their skin destroyed, unjust to innocence Lawful possessor of the worlds last 24 hours Terror and ugliness reveal what death really means And in hatred, you see men as they really are If chosen over heaven, earth will have been for them All along, only another region of hell