Reply #2: I've had an earworm from the 60s for a couple of weeks

[Warpy]

from Tom Paxton, I think:

Lyndon Johnson told the nation
Have no fear of escalation
I am trying everyone to please

Though it isn't really war
I'm sending fifty thousand more
To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese

We old farts know how this one will end, we've been through it before. We just wonder how many of our kids and grandkids these monsters will kill before we manage to get rid of them.