In CNN this week Monday, Senator Hillary Clinton called President Bush to boycott the opening of this summer's Olympic Games in China, in regards to the Chinese government's failure to pressure the government of Sudan to end the violence in Darfur. Why do we have to create a huge controversy over something people enjoy to watch?
However, Senator Barack Obama has two views to this issue, he feels that what is happening in Darfur is a problem, but he also feels that having the Olympics is about bringing everyone around the world together, and shouldn't be about a place to voice your opinions about politics. I definately feel the same way as Senator Obama, the Olympics is a gathering of the world and friendly competition. Families all around the world watch the Olympics and they should not have to decide whether or not to watch because the fear of watching political protest as the gymnastics portion of the Olympics is going on.
This is a class blog for the students of POLSCI 426: Congressional Politics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
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3 comments:
I think this is the way our world is starting to go towards. We are seeing a lot more political confliction then we have in the past decade. I wonder if it will ever get to the point where we will have another world war.
It would be silly to boycott the olympics for political reasons. The purpose of the olympics is to promote world peace and friendly competition. If the US boycotts them now, they should have in past years when china participated. The location of the games should not matter.
That might be the romantic purpose of the Olympics, and that's nice, but the actual purpose is to bring in a whole bunch of money. They can't go back in time and retroactively boycott past Olympics because of China, but if they decided there was a legitimate reason to do so now I don't think that not doing so previously is a adequate justification to continue the same policy. If the US was genuinely threatening to pull out of the Olympics, China wouldn't care because of the harm done to "friendly, nation-building athletic competition", they'd be looking at how much money they stood to lose. The actual question that needs to be addressed (mentioned by Dodd in the article) is whether or not an Olympic boycott would actually have the intended effect, not whether it's offensive to the families watching the gymnastics competition to have to listen to political protest/debate.
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