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I don't understand why you'd say this. The US 100% did start all these fires. Not only did they start them, they keep adding wood to the fire. It's so blatant even a blind person could see.
Billy Joel has great song and I appreciate him as an artist, but I'll he damned if he isn't an imperialist justifier.
Is that how the song should be taken?
I always understood it as him or the speaker singing the lyrics as if the audience was innocent in the events, and the leaders /villains/whoever are not “us” and they did it.
More specifically, singing as the younger generation about trying to live in the world their parents and grandparents seem intent on burning to the ground. And that's not just my perception. You can hear him tell it in his own words (starting at 1:52).