After Iran, cancel ALL sports... Olympics, FIFA, even Little League

[WilliamPlanke]

Kick our asses out. As a nation, as a feckless society, we don’t deserve to rejoice in international sports competitions. We are now a pariah in the world’s eyes.

[tritsofme]

1. Yea, no thanks.

[Igel]

2. "Trump did something bad, we must all suffer for it."

Nope.

You want to wear a hairshirt, feel free. Don't call for mandatory hairshirts to be worn in public to show penance. And the obligatory ashes sprinkled liberally on one's person, I'm not into "Just say now!" but, rather, "Just say no!"

It's fine to say "Trump doesn't deserve" but I'm not into collective guilt or collective punishment.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Because athletes, especially the youngest ones,

deserve to be punished for something they had absolutely nothing to do with.

Of course. Makes perfect sense.

[Attilatheblond]

5. I tend to apply that logic to the Iranian people too.

Punishing people for what bad leaders do is the typical result of the people having bad leaders.

[TnDem]

4. hardly

The Arab world is by and large more scared of Iran with a nuclear weapon than Israel is.

[Attilatheblond]

6. Concern is not about The Arab world, but rather religious fanatics who don't like us and don't like Arab leaders.

[TnDem]

10. I'm not sure I follow you

Who are you referring to?

[Attilatheblond]

12. Your reply above my comment

[sarisataka]

7. Which of these statements are true-

All Americans are responsible for the actions of Trump

All Palestinians are responsible for the actions of Hamas

All Jews are responsible for the actions of Netanyahu

All of them, none of them or some of them?

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. I was looking forward to the LLWS in Tehran next year, too. Damn. nt

[Ping Tung]

9. Most people around the world and throughout history have never experrienced war directly.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez

[LexVegas]

11. ...

[MarineCombatEngineer]

13. Yeah, sure, right, ok.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

14. Seems this isn't going the way you expected it to,

but hang on, it's still early.

[Zohran25]

15. America and Israel should be barred from international competition.

Russia is currently barred by the World Cup and Olympics. The same standard should apply to the United States and Israel.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

16. Yeah, good luck with that.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

17. BTW,

welcome to DU............I think.

[tritsofme]

18. Womp womp

[BannonsLiver]

19. People are understandably upset, confused etc but this ain't it, bud.