Sports: July 2008 Archives
Jonathan's right that "No country is pure enough not to be worthy of protest," and that boycotting the Olympics is a futile gesture. Carter's boycott of Moscow '80 didn't get the Soviets to leave Afghanistan, nor did Moscow's boycott of L.A. '84 drive Reagan to his ant-communist knees.
Still, we ought to give the Butchers of Beijing the shudder of polite disgust they've earned. Our athletes may go to the games, but our president should not. And American corporations like Coca-Cola, which have spent millions underwriting Peking's PR effort, won't be getting any of my business.
Remember that not far from these games, a Chinese woman is being forced to have an abortion. A believer is being persecuted. And a dissident rots in a gulag.
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