Maybe I'm just reading too much into symbolism - but we got home in time to tune into the Half-Time Show of the Super Bowl tonight.

After last year - I was sure that a million eyes would be on the content. And I knew that security was at primary concern.

Paul McCartney was great - and the sound, picture, and staging was pretty impressive.

Then - for I think his third number - he launches into a driving rendition of "Live and Let Die" as the stadium erupts in rockets, flame throwers, and columns of smoke.

The lyrics say it all...

"When you were young and your heart was an open book,
You used to say live and let live.
(You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.)
But if this ever changing world in which we live in,
Makes you give in and cry...
Say live and let die.
(Live and let die.)
Live and let die.
(Live and let die.)"

Did anyone think about the fact that we're at war? That our young men and women are dying? That we're trying to present ourselves as a just, fair, and decent people. Maybe these lyrics are fine for the fictional world of James Bond

the lyrics continue:

"What does it matter to you?
When you got a job to do you gotta do it well.
You've got to give the other fella hell."

I just keep thinking about the families of both the American and Iraqi casualties - and wondering if they'll think that Live And Let Die is really an ok public message for the most widely watched US Television event seen around the world?

I tried to just enjoy the spectacle, the crowds, the flat screen monitors, even the slightly radical shirt that Paul was wearing. But somehow the words just cut through it all.

Maybe it was an oversight. Maybe it wasn't a purposeful public strutting of our Military Might. Maybe Paul has sung the song so many times it's just a nice tune.

But after Janet Jackson - we've learned that even a 'malfunction' can have significant consequences (just ask all the broadcasters and content makers who are now trying to figure out what indecency is). But "Live and Let Die" being blasted to a stadium of well fed, well housed, protected American's as we have troops overseas seems to me to be the ultimate international statement of arrogance.