As long as there have been wars, it seems there have been anti-war protest songs. (Even Sappho wrote 'make love not war' poetry, and I'm sure some early cave drawings were along those lines.) As a child in the 1960s, I learned the guitar chords to "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" and heard about Country Joe McDonald & The Fish. (Google them, and you'll have one of those V-8 moments when you see what their biggest hit was.)
But in later decades, either protest songs got more opaque or politicians got stupider (evidenced by the Reagan campaign in '84 quoting "Born In The USA" as a patriotic anthem, not at all what Springsteen intended). And these days it seems harder and harder to find a unique angle on the perfect combination of political outrage and satiric comedy that Country Joe embodied.
Until last week - The Daily Show summed up our latest airstrikes in an absolutely perfect analogy that simply begged to be set to music: