1. This song is about the wonders that America can accomplish. It also discusses how many people are involved, but not everyone is fully into the situation.
2. The theme is this song is that America is not the huge, involved, invincible power it is made out to be. "Seventeen company men/out of which only twelve will make it back again" in tandem with the chorus, "cause America can/cause America can't say no" is saying that we take so much pride in these patriotic things, but they really aren't doing good for us. The death of these men will hurt the wives, but we justify it by saying it is in the name of America. "Eighteen academy chairs/ out of which only seven really even care" is discussing how there is a big celebration admired by the majority of America, but the people involved in the event barely even care about what they are presenting. The song is trying to get us to realize saying America can, America says it's so is not a valid excuse, we must stop doing things for the outward appearance. The cannibals, the lower class of the nation, often go unnoticed by eventually consume what they are being told by the people above them in the social hierarchy, like the military wives or the celebrities.
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