Tom Paxton - Be A Sport Afghanistan

[einhverfr]

Gotta love Tom Paxton. Sometimes I have to go read up on history after listening to his songs (for example, here, the 1980 US Olympic Boycott)

[SubzeroWolfman]

What an accidental find!

Great!

Thank you!

And remember:

It's Only a Game!

:)

[brainpinkey]

lord give ues paxton back or elvis we will GLADLY trade them with justin beiber

[supsupese]

anyone know where i can find the lyrics?

[nondescript11]

@supsupese See those two little vertical lines bottom left? Click on those from time to time and write down the words as they're sung. Pfff. And then send me a copy. Thanks.

[supsupese]

@nondescript11 unfortunately i did shortly after i posted that... then i lost them...

[Welshkiteflyer]

greta song as usual Tom I love these petty arguments that revole aroung a song ha wierdos

[blaine420cook]

As you may well realize eatcraps the majority of Americans only remember very recent events that happen to us instead of events that happen arround the world unless of course they saw charlie wilsons war lol

[djboyle4]

Sarcasm has it place but not played on the lives of our men and women who serve this country in the fight against terrorism. Can you imagine if they would secrete an atomic bomb into New York on a container ship? It would kill millions, not to mention, make a radius of 75 miles uninhabitable and collapse our economy. I enjoy his music but his notion of what's funny is totally wacked-out. And his praise by others on this page makes me sick.

[EatCraps]

Do you even know what this song is about ? it is about when AFGHANISTAN was occupied by RUSSIA. it has nothing to do with TERRORISTS. AND NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU AMERICANS!

Its a message of disapproval from Paxton. And who said anything about Nuclear warfare ? Are you referring to "all clear in Harrisburg"?

[hamdemon101]

i think this song went right over djboyle4's head. Shame, its a great song.

[ruairiobroin]

@hamdemon101 I'd say theres a lot goes over that head. 

[EatCraps]

@brainpinkey dude, AND "Technically!" The words are in English, which coincidentally shares many similarities to the crude gibberish they spew out, over the pond. So I am deeply sorry if I have miss represented any American involvement in the world as a whole. I've seemed to have left out key elements in my scolding.I should have said"AND NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU AMERICANS!(except that you were involved in the creation of an organization that somewhat gave relief to an oppressed civil population)

[brainpinkey]

@EatCraps k you win i quit

[einhverfr]

@EatCraps It has a little to do with the Americans. It has to do with the American boycott of the 1980 Olympics.....

[bamai59]

This is about the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1980 and the American boycott of the Olympics in that year.

[ruairiobroin]

@djboyle4 Yesirree the fuckwit brigade have another champion . Righteous ignorance preciously what Mr Paxton rails against proves Toms point yet again.

Stupidity and selfrighteousness is what's making you sick

[djboyle4]

How cleaver. He should go over there on a peace mission. The first thing they would do is chop off his head and stuff is guitar up his ass.

[EatCraps]

Sarcasm .. this song is build on the phenomenon we know as sarcasm dear child ...

[leejames929]

@djboyle4man do you know anything about modern history hes singing about the RUSSIAN invasion of the Afghanistan during the cold war

[malachy1847]

@djboyle4 This song is over thirty years old written about the U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics in 1980... back then it was America was backing the Taliban and The Musideum ..against those bamn Ruskies .. Now what was it the C.I.A. called unintended harmful consequences for of those actions.... .. Oh yes Blowback!

[Christian121y]

@malachy1847 The Taliban were created in 1994 by the Pakistani deep state in the form of ISI "assistance" several years after the Bureaucratic Collectivists had already been chased out you dolt.But oh well,I guess whenever you need some cheap paleoconservative jab at the CIA and American interventionism the facts are always mass casualties......

[malachy1847]

@Christian121y LoL.... A Great many of The Principal Spiritual, Military and Political leaders of the Taliban had indeed 'served their time' in Afganistan during the eighties ..... 'Copy and Paste' doesn't serve anyone........ look at the facts.Regarding the C.I.A. They have propped up more Despots than I have had Hot Dinners.. The C.I.A.Coined the Phrase, 'Blowback' that's what we are seeing around the Middleast as those Despots Tumble

[Christian121y]

@malachy1847 Yes the American Deep State is bad you fool.Want to hear something else?The sky is blue.Stunning isn't it?That doesn't mean the Talibs weren't created by the PAKISTANI Deep State and not by the AMERICAN one.I'm a stickler for facts at the end of the day and it's a ridiculous assertion to try to say that the ISI wouldn't have just used some other demographic to pilfer from to support their imperialism.I mean really now.......

[Christian121y]

@malachy1847 And can you make my day by providing me the website from which I "copy and paste" all my polemics from?See if you can get back to me on that one.

[malachy1847]

@Christian121y Bill Casey Director of C.I.A. under the Reagan administration funded the ISI bigtime creating a conduit to supply the mujahideem with the weapons and training and finiancial resources required for that war.Regarding Pakistan.. they as a State are bankrolled by the U.S @ Tens of Billions of Dollars. Ruled by the Military Dictators directly or by Proxi the likes of General Zia and Pervez Musharraf come to mind 'Many Countries have an Army But very Few Armies Have a Country'

[Christian121y]

@malachy1847 Once again you fucking imbecile......

The talibs were organized BY THE PAKISTANI ISI.

Do you not understand this point of mine?

[malachy1847]

@Christian121y I take your point that young men came out of Religious schools / Madrassah in Pakistan, Those refugee camps created Political education centres for dissaffected youth displaced by the Soviet Invasion . The Leaders of the Taliban were 'War Hardened' in that conflict, The ikes of Mohammed Omar attended a Madrassah and fought with' The Islamic and National Revolutionary Movement' All im saying this force didn't come out of a Vacuum but the Historical conditions of that time

[Christian121y]

@malachy1847 "The Leaders of the Taliban were 'War Hardened' in that conflict"

So if Operation Cycylone would have never happened you're trying to claim the Talibs would never have been organized?

Lets point out the logical fallacy here by reading your argument back to you by applying the consequences of your logic to other events in history.

Naploean:Well he would never have existed if it weren't for the French Revolution.

[Christian121y]

@malachy1847 Ku Klux Klan:Well they never would have existed if it weren't for the American Civil War.

Partition of India and Pakistan:If it weren't for WW2 that would have never happened

Partition of "Isreal" from Palestine;Well gee willickers this must of happened just because of WW1

My point is,there IS such a thing as self-determinism.The Pakistani ISI could have chosen NOT to create an army of wild-eyed Deobandi Madrassah students.But you know what.THEY ACTUALLY DID

[Christian121y]

@malachy1847 To try to blame the creation of the Taliban on some group other than the association of people who ACTUALLY were responsible for the founding of the group is ridiculous.And to to try to pretend the Pakistanis were simply incapable of forming these feudalists by themselves without the indirect assistence of American Imperialism is just stunningly naive if not borderline racist and patronizing.

[Christian121y]

@malachy1847 Well?

[malachy1847]

@Christian121y I will sign off from this topic as your searing like some 'Drunken Sailor' I garner that your your Profile name. use the word 'Christian' i would suggest you behave like one. so just heal  those anger issues you have.... no more Crusing . It's the likes of Pakistan and outher Nation States that are bankrolled for a pastime, so in that regard they are mere Neocolonies of the bigger Powers, one could by an objective analysis of those times see that as clear as day....

[Christian121y]

@malachy1847 If you think Pakistan is a "neo-colony" of any other country besides its own deep state then I PITY YOU for thinking that.

And Christian is MY NAME you fool.

[bensdadfrank]

@djboyle4 Cleaver, do mean the Beaver's family name, or are you just stuck on head chopping. Why don't you get afraid of the people who are feeding you your narrow minded bullshit. I f you're worried about our economy collapsing, think about what this ten year excursion into Iraq and Afganistan has done for it. Is your house worth more than before this war. Lotsa people getting rich from this war skeezix, but chances are, you ain't one of them, and neither are the people who are fighting it.

[mochompy]

Paxton has been, and is still, a genius song writer. God bless him!

[mochompy]

Fantastic! Tom P might be "older" in years, but his mind is as young as ever. And as "SHARP" as ever. Thank you Tom!