Olympic boycotts – a bad idea
2008 April 10
April 9, 2008 Christian Science Monitor
John K. Cooley makes a cogent argument for why boycotting the Beijing Olympics is a bad idea. Instead, he argues, we should be using the occasion to draw on and promote the Olympic spirit of tolerance, peace and goodwill by urging a ‘truce concept’. Cooley suggests that a truce concept could be for China’s government to invite a Tibetan delegation headed by the Dalai Lama to Beijing. Read further about this peaceful and original alternative to the idea of boycotting.
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