Authorial intent only goes so far. You release a song during the tail-end of the Vietnam War and decry the fact that people are decrying the “war mongering” Ame

Authorial intent only goes so far. You release a song during the tail-end of the Vietnam War and decry the fact that people are decrying the “war mongering” Americans? Well that’s the obvious association. But authorial intent can definitely be pinned on juxtaposing whatever “war mongering” with apparently making great planes. I don’t know what kind of harebrained idea that was. > I hate to break it to you, but America and the rest of the world had been through a lot more than just the Vietnam War. You hate to break it to me? That’s a bizarre statement. I’m not jilted by anyone over that war. And the Vietnam War, again, was happening when the commentary was released and when the spoken-word song was released. Obvious associations. Did Springsteen mean rah-rah America with his Born in the USA? No but it was still used for that purpose by some people.