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28 years ago today, the United States announced a formal boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Why is our delegation still headed to Beijing?

-pb

(Oh, and screw this misnamed and misdirected "strike.")

Comments

[info]leigh137 wrote:
Mar. 21st, 2008 03:12 pm (UTC)
Word, the strike is stupid. Anyhoo...
We're heading to Beijing because Bush has no moral grounding. Duh.
[info]pbagosy wrote:
Mar. 21st, 2008 03:52 pm (UTC)
True, true. The difference here I guess is in 1980, it was Carter making that call.

-pb
[info]pirat_ponton wrote:
Mar. 21st, 2008 05:12 pm (UTC)
Heck, I thought I'd heard some athletes were ditching because of the pollution alone!