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skipping the opening ceremony
Apr. 13th, 2008 10:47 amhttp://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/13/us.olympics.ap/index.html
Bush's national security adviser said it would be a "cop-out" for countries to skip the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics as a way of protesting China's crackdown in Tibet. He's right. If you want to protest, you shouldn't be going at all.
Oh, but that's not what he meant. He meant that "quiet diplomacy" like the U.S. is practicing is a better way to send a message to China's leaders rather than "frontal confrontation."
Um... what? No confrontations. Like, don't do that. You'll just make them angry. Just send them a letter with the White House letterhead, saying you disapprove of their actions. You might have to do it more than once, though. Like not showing up for the ceremony is confronting them. Ooh, big conflict. Seems to me that refraining from sending athletes to the country would be particularly non-confrontational.
Bush's national security adviser said it would be a "cop-out" for countries to skip the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics as a way of protesting China's crackdown in Tibet. He's right. If you want to protest, you shouldn't be going at all.
Oh, but that's not what he meant. He meant that "quiet diplomacy" like the U.S. is practicing is a better way to send a message to China's leaders rather than "frontal confrontation."
Um... what? No confrontations. Like, don't do that. You'll just make them angry. Just send them a letter with the White House letterhead, saying you disapprove of their actions. You might have to do it more than once, though. Like not showing up for the ceremony is confronting them. Ooh, big conflict. Seems to me that refraining from sending athletes to the country would be particularly non-confrontational.
