Look, SK is not optimistic you'll see my point, but let me explain again; SK cheers anytime we, as a capitalistic country open up trade with a communist country; because SK believes US Greenback dollars are way, way more effective in changing foreign people's minds, than a war with GIs in green uniforms carrying M-16s and killing them. It's like in football, if you have a better system, your side should win. And America has a better system.
SK is funny that way, he'd rather see trade contracts coming home to the US than bodybags - because he lived through that era. That way Bruce doesn't have to write songs about it like this one. I'm dedicating it to you in the hopes you might reconsider your position about sending young Americans to their graves for nothing: Pay particular attention to this line: "Had a brother at Khe Sahn Fighting off the Viet Cong. They're still there, he's all gone."