Washington Bullets

In September I bought myself The Clash's double album Sandinista! for my birthday. For a good month I was obsessed with the song "Washington Bullets." In October 2003 Eric Alterman wrote:

While never mega-successful commercially, The Clash remain an unanswerable rebuke to those who demand a wall between art and politics. The angrier their songs about imperialism, inequality and institutionalized violence, the higher they soared musically. And while Clash lyrics necessarily simplified issues--they were not, after all, writing essays for The Nation--rarely did they oversimplify. On Sandinista!, for instance, 'Washington Bullets' is actually a backhanded compliment to Jimmy Carter for refusing to intervene to save Nicaragua's Somoza.