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“The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service.” — Albert Einstein (via lewrockwell.com)

I was introduced to the Buffy Sainte-Marie song, “The Universal Soldier” in 2008 when Ron Paul asked Aimee Allen to sing it at his Rally for the Republic at the Target Center in Minneapolis. I had almost forgotten all about it until the Donovan cover came up randomly in my Peter, Paul & Mary station on Pandora the other day. Such a powerful song! Here are the lyrics courtesy of letssingit.com:

He’s 5 foot 2 and he’s 6 feet 4
He fights with missiles and with spears 
He’s all of 31 and he’s only 17
He’s been a soldier for a thousand years

He’s a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain 
A Buddhist, and a Baptist and Jew 
And he knows he shouldn’t kill 
And he knows he always will kill 
You 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 Dachau
Without him Caesar would have stood alone 
He’s the one who gives his body 
As a 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 
His orders comes 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