The tendency of a religious or repressive upbringing to mess up your sexuality later in life is also a running theme in The Wall. See this part of “Mother,” for example

The “cattle trucks” in this line, given the WWII themes throughout the record, are undoubtedly meant to evoke the cattle trucks that took Jews and other “undesirables” to concentration camps during the Holocaust

Ansar al-Sharia, an Islamist militia, was identified by some witnesses as being behind the attacks, a charge they vehemently deny

Their leader, Mohammed Zahawi, has been vocal about proclaiming that the West’s only interest in Libya is their voluminous oil reserves:

“They can have the petrol if they want, so long as they just leave us alone,” Zahawi said. “We waive our rights to petrol, let them take it, just don’t intervene in implementing our religion and Islamic law.

Right on the word “truth,” the beat from Beanie Sigel’s “The Truth” starts up. This is the switch Cipha is referring to, above

In 1982, Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri, then at a low point in the polls, invaded the nearby Falkland Islands, which were ruled by the UK, though Argentina had long felt they had a claim

A reference to what is, depending on where you’re from, either called The First Lebanon War or “the invasion” — Israel’s 1982 invasion of Southern Lebanon

A reference to the 1979 Soviet deployment in that country. Incidentally, US backing of the Soviets' opponents would bring a certain Osama bin Laden to prominence

While Waters is unsparing of his criticism of Margaret Thatcher and her, to Waters' thinking, killing of the idea of collective good, he does not spare himself from criticism. Note the “we” here.

These lines form a motif on this album, one that will be revisited as the narrator reckons with the cost of a far-away war

Waters' narrator continues the WWII-era bigotry by painting all Japanese as kamikaze pilots

This BBC Story tells us the deal:

Ship building used to be the main industry along the Tyne and Wear. Sunderland was once the largest ship building town in the world and generations of families were employed at the shipyards. By the 1950s, Japanese and Korean companies were building ships more quickly and cheaply and this foreign competition led to the decline of Sunderland’s shipyards. The issue facing these former industrial areas is no longer one of ship building, but of ship breaking.

Note the use of the derogatory term “Nips” for Japanese — a conscious throwback to WWII-era attitudes. This kind of racism from the narrator pops up again on the album’s penultimate song, “Not Now John”