Album: The Great Depression (2006)

New World Order is a song about the horrors of the 2003 Iraq War. Historically, Defiance, Ohio’s political commentary comes in the form of clever metaphor and allusion, but in New World Order, the band takes a different approach, opting to attack the Bush administration’s mind boggling rush to war in Iraq following the attacks of 9/11 on the basis of eliminating Weapons of Mass Destruction despite a complete lack of evidence of their presence in Iraq.

The song also takes aim at American foreign policy in general, criticizing the American tenancy to unethically occupy territory and act in their own interest with little to no regard for any harm done to others as a result. The Iraq War happens to be a fantastic example of this foreign policy.

It is believed by many that the Iraq war was at least partially motivated by the extreme Christian Zionist views... (Continues)