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Merle Haggard’s Peace Song ‘America First’ – Adam Dick

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 18:46

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TND Guest Contributor: Adam Dick

Merle Haggard, who died today, will be remembered with appreciation by many people for his songs over the decades. Among those songs is “America First.” Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Chairman Ron Paul included “America First” in a list of peace songs in his book Swords into Plowshares.

In an answer to the classic question of guns versus butter, Haggard says in the song, “There’s things to be done all over the world, but let’s rebuild America first.”

Making it clear where he stands on American foreign policy, Haggard goes on to sing in the 2005 song, “Let’s get out of Iraq, get back on the track, and let’s rebuild America first.” In Haggard’s music video for the song, his singing of these lyrics is followed by a photo of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton together that helps show that war is a bipartisan US government venture, as well as a close-up of a Veterans for Peace logo communicating that people who fought in the US military are among the people who oppose wars.

Watch Haggard’s music video for “America First” here:

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The above appeared at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity website and is reprinted with permission. To visit the website, click here. Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is a project of Dr. Paul’s Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (F.R.E.E.), founded in the 1970s as an educational organization. The Institute continues and expands Dr. Paul’s lifetime of public advocacy for a peaceful foreign policy and the protection of civil liberties at home. The Institute mobilizes colleagues and collaborators of Dr. Paul’s to participate in a broad coalition to educate and advocate for fundamental changes in our foreign and domestic policy. To support the institute’s important work, click here.