ERIC MULLER doesn’t think much of the pro-war country song Have You Forgotten? (though he gives appropriate degree-of-difficulty credit for finding a rhyme for “bin Laden”). I haven’t heard it,. (I haven’t even heard Toby Keith’s hit pro-war song) but I’ll assume it’s as dumb as he says.

Still, most hit songs are dumb. But isn’t it a significant cultural indicator that this time around the dumb hit songs about war are pro-war?

UPDATE: Reader Steven Ehrbar emails:

Given that the song doesn’t mention Iraq or Hussein, that the song came out before we moved against Iraq, and that the songwriter himself said that it wasn’t taking a position on whether we should go to war against Iraq, Mr. Muller’s commentary is what’s stupid.

It’s not a song about Iraq, it’s a song about the War on Terror. And it’s a damned good song about the necessity of the War on Terror.

Um, okay. I haven’t heard it, except for about 5 seconds as a bumper on Frank Cagle’s radio show, which didn’t give me the chance to form an opinion. But a lot of people (including Frank) seem to be treating it as a song about Iraq — at least, that’s how it seems to me.