Did anyone see the half time show for the Super Bowl? U2 was playing and in the background there was this huge scrolling list of all the people who died on Sept 11. At the end, Bono opened his jacket and flashed the nation with American flag design on the inside of his jacket. I hate to break it to folks, but Bono is Irish. And Paul McCartney is British (he played at the beginning with patriotic regalia).

I thought Paul McCartney and especially U2 were all for leftist causes and cool and shit. There is no excuse for them to participate in such a nationalistic rally, where the desired outcome is the unification of the American people against all that is Unamerican - all those savages in Afghanistan who couldn't care less about the Super Bowl. Such sentimental education is reprehensible.

The magnitude of the Super Bowl as a nation building project is so large that any self respecting person would not play if they were linking this sporting event to Sept. 11. I believe that no leftist or whatever should have to subscribe to a laundry list of beliefs, political priorities, etc. But playing this Super Bowl was not only a support of hypermasculinity and the spectacle of violence within the sports arena, but it was also linked to the violence occurring because of US foreign policy, and reactions to that policy. Why did they keep showing clips of enthusiastic US troops in Afghanistan? I doubt the networks went through all that effort for shits and giggles.

It pisses me off that some assholes who produced the Super Bowl are using Sept 11 as a nation building project in support of the United States' foreign policy without a critique.