To me. Given Beirut's fascination with Easter European music, there many references to Europe and the cold war the curtain mentioned is deffinatley the iron curtain seperating the east and the west during the cold war.
To me it's asking questions about the state of the world after the supposed end of the cold war. It deffinatley is a very broad question. However this makes me think of the way that all governments use fear as the catalyst to drive their policies. During the cold war they had the fear created by the soviet union. Now they have the fear created by terrorism.
If I was saying these lines I would be asking whether we will ever change. Wether we will stop reacting fearfully and choose rather to risk some of our own self rightious pride and have a more open and embracing foreign policy.
To me. Given Beirut's fascination with Easter European music, there many references to Europe and the cold war the curtain mentioned is deffinatley the iron curtain seperating the east and the west during the cold war.
To me it's asking questions about the state of the world after the supposed end of the cold war. It deffinatley is a very broad question. However this makes me think of the way that all governments use fear as the catalyst to drive their policies. During the cold war they had the fear created by the soviet union. Now they have the fear created by terrorism.
If I was saying these lines I would be asking whether we will ever change. Wether we will stop reacting fearfully and choose rather to risk some of our own self rightious pride and have a more open and embracing foreign policy.