chapotraphouse

This is true. Individuals rarely make massive differences. There's actually a type of rap song that explains this very well. It's describing drug dealing dynamics more, but war profiteering fits the profile. Songs about being a drug dealer (war monger) making big moves and all the money while contributing to the destruction of their community, but also knowing that they are disposable and if they die another person will just replace them. Drug dealing is a desperation thing, so it's a different situation, but I'd definitely compare war mongers to drug dealers in how they're important to the community, yet ultimately damaging more than they help.

Kissinger is the ultimate example. Kissinger may have been the American death dealer, but in the mind of Americans, he was still important and good because we really could have gotten worse. I never quite feared Kissinger, he was ultimately a profiteer above everything else, as such he was predictable. I fear the guy who idolizes Kissinger and replaces him in the world, without understanding how calculated Kissinger was. Kissinger is pretty much one of the only people in history where you can assume anything that happened because of him was fully intentional. He was pretty much every bad thing you could say about him, but he already knew that shit. Maybe I'm just odd, but I'll always pick a competent sociopath against a completely unhinged idiot. Kissinger was going to fuck up lives and it's unavoidable, but at least he won't fuck up everybody's life. I bet Kissinger's sequel is going to be an emotional war hawk that will fuck up everybody's life on the planet. We're going to see the US declare war on some nation in South America or Mexico soon.

But anyways, here are the two songs I think of when thinking of this. Sure there are more like this, but these are great songs.

Ice-T - New Jack Hustler

Sleep on silk, lie like a politician My Uzi's my best friend, cold as a mortician Lock me up, it's genocidal catastrophe There'll be another one after me, a hustler

Freddie Gibbs - Thuggin (This is the single version, not the studio recording)

My uncle last bitch put him on the glass dick Tried to rob a man to feed his habit, he got blasted I live on borrowed time, my expiration date I passed it So lock me up forever, but this shit is everlastin'