donnie65's Blog

 Some people are saying we should boycott the summer games in China over the harsh treatment of the Monks in Tibet.Our country did this in 1980 and a lot of promising athletes missed the opportunity of a lifetime to compete against the best athletes in world.The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was the reason for this.We had no idea at the time, but the same group of people we were upset of having their freedom violated by the Soviets would later be known as the Taliban, who as we all know, turned on our country.I'm getting way off of the topic here.All I really wanted to say whether it's 1936 in Berlin,or 1980 in Moscow, or this summer in Bejiing, our young athletes shouldn't  be made pawns in international poltical games.