Creativity Quote by Rosanne Cash

Cash’s sentence is built like a moral ledger: one grievance stacked on the next until the conclusion feels less like an opinion than an indictment. The opening, “I think it is wrong,” is plainspoken, almost domestic in its restraint, which matters because it refuses the theatrics that often surround wartime debate. She’s not auditioning for a think tank; she’s claiming the right, as a citizen and public artist, to name a line that’s been crossed.

The real charge sits in her verbs: “went against,” “alienated,” “invaded.” Each one widens the damage from a single battlefield to a broader map of relationships and legitimacy. Invoking “The U.N.” isn’t bureaucratic name-dropping; it’s a shorthand for rules-based order, for the idea that power is supposed to submit to process. “Alienated our allies” flips the usual patriotic framing. The betrayal here isn’t only against “them” but against “us” and the partnerships meant to constrain unilateral force.

“Inva[ding] a country that hasn’t threatened us” is the pivot from procedure to principle. Cash foregrounds the absence of immediacy: no clear provocation, no self-defense narrative sturdy enough to hold. When she labels it “a pre-emptive strike,” she’s tapping into the post-9/11 rhetorical shift that tried to make fear itself a casus belli. Subtext: if you normalize pre-emption, you normalize endless war, because threats can be imagined faster than they can be verified.

As a musician, Cash’s intervention carries a particular cultural friction: she’s speaking into a space where entertainers are often told to “shut up and sing.” The point is precisely that art and citizenship don’t have separate passports.