Boycott at least the opening ceremonies. China’s record on its one child policy and forced abortion
is reason enough!

It’s good to see you!

I agree. I know the president is in a more difficult spot than the rest of us, having to balance a ton of other considerations while we can make purely moral judgements on these things. Nevertheless, it seems crazy to me that he’s attending the opening ceremonies in person. . . We should be boycotting them, not lending the prestige of our head of state.

Personally, I’m inclined to support a boycott of the games as a whole. But perhaps that should have been made a very noisy issue when the location for the games was first being chosen.

Btw, Gail, have you read Steven Mosher’s “A Mother’s Ordeal”? It does an excellent job paralleling one woman’s biography with the history of modern China, and brings in the development and impact of the population control issues.

TG, I haven’t read “A Mother’s Ordeal,” but will. On your recommendation I just ordered
“Is It Me or My Meds.”

[…] Like other conservative bloggers, I find myself in the strange company of Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Hillary Clinton, who are calling for a boycott of the opening ceremonies. If there is no boycott on the national level, I think at the very least that athletes themselves should mount some sort of protest. Perhaps medal winners could turn their medals around to hang from their backs while on the podium? That would be difficult for the Chinese officials to police, and it would speak volumes. […]

Frustrating. I think it’s too late to call for that, which is why Pelosi and Clinton can afford the posturing. It’s free morality.

The IOC is second only to the UN as an enabler of totalitarian propaganda, so . . . yeah. Never mind. . . . back to the world the news tells us is real. . . .

Even in that world, it remains that China’s brutal religious, social, political, and economic repression; its flagrant abuse of women and babies through its one-child policy, biological experimentation, forced abortion and sterilization–these and more are easily swept under the rug (with disapproving notes from the embassy and a “you really *must* do better or we’ll have to charge higher tariffs on T-shirts”) of its Progressive, socialist, blahblah. . . . but Tibet is a fashionable cause, and China is attempting to act capitalist these days, so . . . NOW we have to get tough.

Radicals are radicals.

Hee! I love when you get cynical.

I’m going to do a short series soon on the rise of the Chinese military. All I can say is, we’d best get cozy with India. We’re going to need them. . .