Really Real wrote:
You didn't see Steve sitting out when the Soviets boycotted in return; presumably he wanted a games where everyone competed.
Who cares if Commies do something stupid to their own country like boycott the Games? It only matters when America is dragged down to the same childish level by the American Communist Party (aka Democrats).
Presidents make tough choices Steve, grow up, and STOP CRYING AFTER 30 YEARS.
And who wants to hear your baby murdering, criminal supporting, riot inciting, handout demanding opinion on anything, now or in 30 years?
Isn't it INTERESTING, than in the 30 years since YOU could have earned/won a Nobel Peace Prize...and you have pretty much done nothing for the world.
Big shock, dumb jock.
How to Win a Nobel Peace Prize
Al Gore did it--you can too!
http://reason.com/archives/2007/10/12/how-to-win-a-nobel-peace-prizeKill a lot of people, then stop. In 1973, the Nobel Peace Prize was shared by Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. Kissinger's CV included the "secret" bombing of Cambodia and the "Christmas" bombing of North Vietnam; just a month before his prize was announced, he was complicit in the coup that installed a brutal dictatorship in Chile. So why did he win? Because he and Tho had reached a truce to end the Vietnam War. Tho wasn't a particularly peaceful man either, but at least he had the common courtesy to refuse the award.
More recently, the prize went to Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat, a man whose career to that point had been spent arranging terrorist assaults on civilians. He shared the award with Israel's Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin; the three of them, like Kissinger and Tho, had negotiated an end to a war. In this case the peace agreement didn't hold, and both the state of Israel and various Palestinian groups went on to produce many more corpses. So don't worry if you develop a taste for blood during the initial stage of your Peace Prize campaign: You're free to resume killing once Mr. Nobel's money is safely in your hands.
By this method, the prize could conceivably go next year to Dick Cheney, the Janjaweed, or anyone else in a position to bring a war to a temporary stop. That someone could be you!
My advice to anyone who wants to follow in the footsteps of Linus Pauling and the Dalai Lama is to fuse approaches two and three. Start an NGO devoted to murder and mayhem—something on the SPECTRE/Al Qaeda/Medellin Cartel model—and then agree to a truce. In theory, you could accomplish this in an afternoon, but to make a splash big enough to impress the Nobel judges it's probably best to bargain with something larger than the Nashville Police Department's hostage negotiations unit. Choose your target wisely.
Either that, or make a movie.