Following the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the song was placed on the &lt;a href="Clear%20Channel%20memorandum"&gt;list of post-9/11 inappropriate titles&lt;/a&gt; distributed by Clear Channel. In 2006, the conservative "National Review" released their list of the top 50 "Conservative Rock Songs", with "Rock the Casbah" at number 20, noting the Clear Channel list as well as frequent requests to the British Forces Broadcasting Service during the Iraq War. Cultural reviewer and political analyst Charlie Pierce commented that "the notion of the Clash as spokesfolk for adventurism in the Middle East might have been enough to bring Joe Strummer back from the dead."