dunno, think before you speak.
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Safety has already been pronounced and noted in this thread.
There is nothing wrong with you bringing up the memory of Yasser Arafat ordering a terrorist attack on Israeli wrestlers at the 1972 Olympics in Germany.
Israeli 1972 Olympic Team Murdered in Munich
However, as mentioned, unless safety is the reason then politics nor humanitarian agendas should interfere with participating in the Olympic Games.
Do you have any idea what a country that is granted the privilege of running the Olympics must spend on security, dunno? Try over a billion dollars!
All Olympics whether on American soil or Russian are precariously dangerous due to terrorism and other threats. If terrorism or other related threats were a reason not to attend an Olympics dunno, then not one single Olympics would be attended. They are all dangerous. They have always been and always will be risky.
Imagine how brave it was for Jewish or African athletes to attend Hitler's 1936 Olympics!
dunno, don't you read a thread before you decide to comment? The reason for the 1980 boycott was already explained. You infer that a nine eleven fear swept the world and we were wet in the pants to go to the Olympics in Russia. You infer that the Russians would have murdered our athletes if we had attended. Or Israelis would have murdered Arabs. Let me just say without the emotion that your phobic mania deserves that this is just plain ignorant.
The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan spurred United States President Jimmy Carter to issue an ultimatum that the United States would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from the country by 12:01 A.M. Eastern Standard Time on February 20, 1980
dunno, use your head. If Russia had withdrawn from Afghanistan then we would have been at the Russian Olympics. Terrorism? Did Carter mention Terrorism?
After the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan in December 1979 to prop up an unstable pro-Soviet government, the United States reacted quickly and sharply. It suspended arms negotiations with the Soviets, condemned the Russian action in the United Nations, and threatened to boycott the Olympics to be held in Moscow in 1980. When the Soviets refused to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, President Carter finalized his decision to boycott the games. On March 21, 1980, he met with approximately 150 U.S. athletes and coaches to explain his decision. He told the crowd, "I understand how you feel," and recognized their intense disappointment. However, Carter defended his action, stating, "What we are doing is preserving the principles and the quality of the Olympics, not destroying it." Many of the athletes were devastated by the news. As one stated, "As citizens, it is an easy decision to make-support the president. As athletes, it is a difficult decision." Others declared that the president was politicizing the Olympics. Most of the athletes only reluctantly supported Carter's decision.
dunno, do you see anything about terrorism in the above article? Do you see anyone relieved that their lives were spared by not going? Moderators, tell this guy something!
I apologize to the moderators in advance and cite dunno as confrontational. This is not the first time. His impunity is a quandary. I don't understand it. But in this case I am compelled to form and post a rebuttal to his misleading and erroneous confrontational message.
It is a fact dunno that name calling and mocking is against the policies that bogwoppit and Geoffrey Taucer defend here on Chalk Bucket. If you have something to contribute then please keep your comments within the guidelines. Your demeanor is certainly not commensurate with the tone of Chalk Bucket. I have read many of the threads in which you have offered your six pounds of acuity and find that members other than myself, complain.
I don't know why your insolence is tolerated here on Chalk Bucket, dunno. As well as being disrespectful and off topic, your posts at times are simply guttural. Grow up.
