This song has been getting a lot of play lately. It's a very hard 80s folky rock song about wanting to avenge victims of the US-back Montt regime in Guatemala.
So what's the heel turn? In 2009, he performed the song for Canadian troops in Afghanistan. After,
Cockburn drew wild applause when he sang If I Had a Rocket Launcher, which prompted the commander of Task Force Kandahar, Gen. Jonathan Vance, to temporarily present him with a rocket launcher.
"I was kind of hoping he would let me keep it. Can you see Canada Customs? I don't think so," Cockburn said, laughing.
Now I'm imagining a young Cockburn in that Mexican refugee camp that wants a rocket launcher to shoot helicopters. Then a canadian soldiers gives him a rocket launcher and points towards the refugees where he can live out his actual dream of having a rocket launcher (justice be damned)
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