Read what I actually wrote PFR. The "editing" wasn't just insensitive: it was the deliberate and conscious removal of the core message in the song's lyrics and the main reason for its existence (read Bogle's account). Therefore it was a political act, not a simple rearrangement of a song for artistic purposes (or even merely to fit a time slot).

I suspect that you are a closed minded type and probably not worth the effort of trying to reason with. However, even the most ignorant reader of this discussion and observer of the facts must see that removing an explicitly anti-war message (not necessarily a pacifist message as many peace campaigners are prepared to fight if necessary - the artist I mentioned above wore the emblems of 'Veterans for Peace' and 'Ex-Services CND' alongside his campaign and service medals at the RBL concert) was a deliberate act intended to alter the meaning and impact of the song.

Joss Stone may be young, inexperienced and ill-educated as you say, but she read the original lyrics before she re-wrote them, and the people who commissioned and produced the record were also fully aware of what they were doing. Artists who make political statements (or who censor them) in their work have to take responsibility for that. Altering the political statement in someone else's song (without their permission or even consulting them) and turning it into the travesty we heard on Saturday night was an outrage and if you find this point "immature" or "embarrassing" then that says more about you than me.