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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts) Sat Mar 21, 2020, 07:14 AM Mar 2020

40 Years Ago Today; Carter announced that the U.S. would boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow

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#OTD in 1980, President Carter announced that the U.S. would boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-representatives-us-teams-the-1980-summer-olympics …

7:03 AM - Mar 21, 2020

Seems like yesterday. I'd take the Cold War's return over any of the present horrors.

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Silly posturing over Afghanistan Jake Stern Mar 2020 #1

Jake Stern

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1. Silly posturing over Afghanistan

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Sat Mar 21, 2020, 09:17 AM

Mar 2020

Lest we forget it was Jimmy Carter, on the advice of Zbignew Jablonsky or whatever the fuck his name was, who decided to start pumping money to the Islamist Mujahideen (to be fair Ronnie Raygun happily kept it going) in order to give the Russkies their own Vietnam War.

Would I have refused to send American athletes to the 1980 Summer gams as president? Not a chance because I believe the games shouldn't be politicized or used as a forum for petty political dick waving.

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