"social Darwinism as sport"

It is NOT just a game. The beautiful game is, in fact, allegory for so many of the world's problems, foreign policies and love affairs that it baffles me as to why the US uses ping-pong diplomacy in the 70's and wrestling diplomacy in the 90's as yardsticks of innovative statecraft.

The Chinese are in crisis. Not because of the pollution threatening to "tarnish" their image during the Olympics, but because their very essence is in question. This is the country that is the driving force behind much of the world's illegal poaching - Tigers for their bones; Rhino for their horns; Buffalo for their testicles. And now, they are questioning their manhood because of their dismal performance on the soccer field. The recent elimination from 2010 World Cup competition, due to a defeat by Iraq, doesn't help.


If only India took athletics a bit more seriously...

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