Winter Olympics start February 4 in Beijing. World at odds, on edge over #Russia @ #Ukdraine border. US diplos boycotting Olympics because of human rights violations by China. UN, meanwhile, calls for Olympic Truce during period of games to promote peace through sport. Indeed, UN has whole department dedicated to promoting peace and development through sport. During Somalia intervention in mid 1990’s, warring clan fighters put down guns to watch World Cup on communal TVs donated by Cisco.
Plenty of excitement in world without resort to destructive wars. Fight it out on skating rink, bring honor to your country, all near-200 countries of the world. Not in the Games this year? Get inspired, look up your country’s Olympic Committee & sharpen up skate blades. We can all help each other. Olympic flame lights the way.
Read about Somalia and sport in Mission Improbable: the world community on a UN compound in Somalia. Read about the vast UN global network in the novel entitled The Midas Maze. Read about fate we are avoiding now in Light of a Destiny Dark, a true-life novel about Hungary through World War II followed by near-40 years of Soviet domination. And finally, read about the joys of global democracy in America Votes Obama to Biden Past Trump: a kaleidoscopic view of the Trump phenomenon, out just now on major on-line book sites.
The world is resplendent with plenty of diversity to keep all enthralled. Differences inevitable. Fight them out in sport, not bloody conflict. Bon chance, y’all. Meet you in Beijing.
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