Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Rhetoric

As far as protest music goes no one should have bothered after Bob. Neil Young and his band are so tired, predictable and boring in their music and politics as to be insufferable.
Dylan would never write such a trite, shallow piece of trash called Let's Impeach the President. How ridiculous, no matter what you're politics are.
As for the shot at Bono, well yeah, I guess everyone hates him now but at least he's in a good band.

According to Dylan, John Brown is NOT an anti-war song. Here is what he says in Chronicles:

Archie said he liked a song of mine called “John Brown,” a song about a boy that goes off to war. “I don’t find the song to be about this boy at all. It’s really more of a Greek drama, isn’t it? It’s about mothers,” he tells me. “The different kinds of mothers—biological, honorary … all the mothers wrapped into one.” I’d never thought of that, but it sounded right.

And for good measure, I'll also throw in a song that many think is an anti-war song: Masters of War. Here is what Dylan has to say about that:

Q: Give me an example of a song that has been widely
misinterpreted.

A: Take "Masters Of War." Every time I sing it, someone writes that it's an antiwar song. But there's no antiwar sentiment in that song. I'm not a pacifist. I don't think I've ever been one. If you look closely at the song, it's about what Eisenhower was saying about the dangers of the military-industrial complex in this country. I believe strongly in everyone's right to defend themselves by every means necessary... you are affected as a writer and a person by the culture and spirit of the times. I was
tuned into it then, I'm tuned into it now. None of us are immune to the spirit of the age. It affects us whether we know it or whether we like it or not.

Above quote from:
http://expectingrain.com/dok/int/2003tour.html