I just listened to it.
Color me unimpressed. The song is depressing. It isn’t ‘anti-American’, per se....but it does view the soldier as someone who is stuck in a hopeless situation and has the lack of ability to do any good.
If Billy truly wrote this, consider his career officially over.
“We came to bring these people Freedom
We came to fight the Infidel “
WTF? Fight the Infidel? Does he have any clue what an Infidel is?
We came to fight ourselves?