"But you know what? I bet some of the kids who bought this record looked his name up after reading the lyrics and know a whole lot more about the Oil-for-Food scandal than they did before." Not everyone is amused by Mustaine s battering of the blue helmets.
"I just wonder which abomination he considers worse: Eradicating polio or ending obstetric fistula?" Mark Leon Goldberg sniffs on UN Dispatch. "Or is it the campaign to reduce childhood mortality rates by two-thirds that gets the aging rocker s blood boiling?
I suppose he can take his pick." "I m sure the United Nations does some good stuff," Mustaine retorts. "I mean, they ve got one of the most beautiful women in the world pushing rice in Darfur.
But that s the irony of it all. They ll send those C130s over there full of supplies, drop it off and..
.the rebels get it. Deliver it all the way if you re going to deliver it.
What good is it if it goes to the bad people? Then there are these allegations of women and children being raped by peacekeepers in Africa -- the first time that happens it s a crime, the second time it is a travesty." It s the lack of outrage that has Mustaine outraged.
"Why doesn t Michael Moore do an expose on the UN?" he asked, adding, "When I see Syria on the Security Council [in 2002-2003], am I supposed to feel secure? It s mad.
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They just rely on UNICEF, this one good thing they re doing, to cover up all the stuff that they re not doing, to put them beyond dissent. I m not impressed. How long are they going to sit by and watch Hezbollah fire Katyusha rockets into Israel from Lebanon?
That s a question I d like answered." Speaking of Israel, on another track, "Amerikhastan," Mustaine envisions a dystopian future wherein a "legion of bankrupt souls with a lust for revenge" brings civilization to its knees. "You must ignore the focus groups," he advises in his melodic howl.
"You must send in the Mossad/Turn off the BBC and CNN/And don t look back." Ignore CNN? Call in Mossad?
Is it any wonder Mustaine s recent reception in Tel Aviv was near-rapturous? And how long will it be before Mustaine winds up a roving celebrity ambassador for the Project for the New American Century? TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, MUSTAINE S career should be dead, dead, dead.
Over the last half decade, Mustaine suffered a "compressed radial nerve" in his left arm, forcing him to spend a painful year relearning to use his fingers and play guitar. Then there was the endless ridicule over his unflattering appearance in Some Kind of Monster -- the 2004 documentary detailing Metallica s unintentionally hilarious year of group therapy -- a band Mustaine was unceremoniously fired from..
.in 1983. Finally, the controversialist became a born-again Christian, alienating heavy metal s substantial evil music constituency.
"But you know what? I bet some of the kids who bought this record looked his name up after reading the lyrics and know a whole lot more about the Oil-for-Food scandal than they did before.
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