A Neil Young Song Parody for Foreign Policy Friday

               Assad the Killer

He went flying above Aleppo

With his barrel bombs and gas

And his Russian friends beside him.

Swore he’d kick the rebels’ ass.

 

The shattered population

Turned their tires into smoke

As the death fell all around them.

The ceasefire was a joke.

 

He gathered all his allies.

Iran; Hezbollah, too.

He told them of his big plans

And he asked them what to do.

 

They said “Just keep it up, man.

You’ve got millions more to kill.

The West won’t intervene, now.

They just don’t have the will.”

 

He went flying above Aleppo.

Assad, Assad.

What a killer!

 

Parody of “Cortez the Killer” by Neil Young.