this song is probably not well known outside canada. it's about the us-backed contras in nicaragua, a force that has a lot of similarities with isis both in scope and history and function. 

it was actually a pretty big hit, here. i used to hear it on chez 106 quite frequently, and it was on heavy rotation on muchmusic in the wee hours of the morning into the mid-90s.

the song is release; i don't think anybody thinks that bruce cockburn would have really bombed central america, if he actually had a rocket launcher, even if there was something universal underlying the fantasy.

but, i am not an isolationist; i stand with groups on the ground when they need to be supported, as the sandanistas needed to be, and as the victims of isis need support. and, if i had a rocket launcher? yeah. some sonofabitch would die.