Given the state of global opinion on the United States, wouldn't you think the three least likely cities to get the nod for the 2016 Olympics from the international Olympics committeewould be Chicago, Los Angeles, or San Francisco?
There are pittifully few countries on the face of the earth that would choose at this time to give the US any honor, let alone making it the venue of the Olympics.
I love my country. Greatly. I do not want to go into what my (overwhelmingly large) concerns for it here, as this subforum is not the place.
But what is appropriate, what can be discussed is this:
In inumerable ways, the current United States blocks the current Chicago from being "all that it can be". The nation serves as a detriment to our city, as it does to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and plenty of US cities that didn't even put in an Olympic bid.
And since this thread is about Chicago, and Chicago's future, I believe we have every right and responsibility to discuss the above in its Chicago context. And that context is considerable.
I have absolutely no qualms in saying that Chicago serves America far better than America serves Chicago.> |
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