Did you hear Bill Bennett whining when New York lost its bid for 20012? Did the French turn their losing bid for Paris into a political slugfest?
Fer chrissakes, people, it's some amateur sporting events and a bunch of contracts that will benefit a few developers.
Rio is the
"top-ranked city in the world for 'violent intentional deaths.' According to officials, there were five thousand murders last year, half of them drug-gang-related." You know what the murder rate was in Chicago for 2008? 508. That's one-tenth of the rate for Rio. And Chicago has a horrible murder rate. Why doesn't Bill Bennett want to talk about this?
Read the fascinating article by Jon Lee Anderson in this week's New Yorker on gangs in Rio. Olympics aside, it's a terrific read:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/05/091005fa_fact_anderson
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