
National Security: Blowin’ in the wind
It was roughly sixty years ago that Bob Dylan (a.k.a. Robert Zimmerman) wrote the lyrics and music to an early 1960s protest song, “Blowin’ in the Wind.” He addresses topics like war, freedom and racism, then concludes that the answer to these age-old issues is “blowin’ in the wind.” Each chorus ends like this: “The answer my friend, is blowin’ in the wind; the answer is blowing in the wind.” A couple of years after Dylan wrote the song, the folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary turn