A prominent anti-war song, "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire solidifies the dissatisfaction with wartime life. The lyric "We're on the eve of destruction" shows that Vietnam was the end of a era of good government relations. With soldiers "old enough to kill but not enough to vote," the people did not approve of the young age of drafted soldiers, choosing to protest the war rather than support it. Due to the fact that America was fighting ideologies rather than traditional sides, many people felt that America was not needed in Vietnam. This feeling is greatly different from that of Eisenhower's era, where the domino theory of containment created fear in people's minds over the threat of communism. "Eve of Destruction" takes into account the general feelings of the people as "handfuls of senators don't pass legislation" and the government alienates the people in favor of its own power. The glimmer of greed coated the government during the Vietnam Era, preventing the people from changing anything for the better. The lure of world power was too great for Congress and the POTUS, forcing senseless defense spending and causing citizens to believe that they were on "the eve of destruction". Barry McGuire's song takes into account all of the people's feelings over the Vietnam War.