Violence is a means to an end and it is in their psyche. Turkey’s involvement with ISIS, Syria, Iraq and Iran have been fully documented and the US have been involved in more wars in 235 years and killed and destroyed more populations than all other countries combined. France’s actions in Africa in the past 40 years are appalling: Chad, Ivory Coast, Libya, Central Africa, Mali, the list is almost endless. As an example, France’s, Turkey’s and the US’ are among the most violent, jingoist and goriest ones. In today’s geopolitical climate, lyrics of national anthems give a very good indication of countries’ psychology and mindset. Attack, conquer, divide, obliterate, partition, reshape and remold. It is as though the concept of national anthem (which originated in the West) served to fill an identity vacuum and create some sense a unity among people who, otherwise, might historically and geographically have had very little in common other than being trapped together within artificial borders they never chose for themselves and which were imposed on them by sheer force and violence. The mere concept of national anthem appears to coincide with the fairly recent creation of artificial borders through slicing and dicing of existing land worldwide and through arbitrary partitioning of existing ethnic groups by the Occident, either as a result of wars of conquests, colonization and cultural obliteration or, much more recently, as a result of revolutions, wars of independence and the reclaiming of their identity. They conquered the land but not the nations. When we look at their history, they conquered countries and overtook people but once settled, they pretty much allowed them to go on with their lives with little interference.
Although involved in many wars, there is no indication that Greece, Persia, Rome or the Ottoman Empire ever had or needed national anthems.
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