Le's face it: government officials - well - bureaucrats. their bosses and military leaders - in general for the most part - can be true huge or even total arsehats. They are virtually always & primarily thinking only of the next election result or the next appointment, with the results coming at any cost - a cost like our lives about which they could not care less.
I do not know if the song translates exactly from German to English, in fact I know it does not but the German version sounds better to me (then again the English version is not bad at all, just sounds better in deutsche):
By the way, Nena was one hot babe! I'd gladly spend the post-apocalypse with the likes of her.
All the best,
Glenn B