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Every four years, I get a treat: The Summer Olympics. Another chance to root against the American basketball team...
Call me a traitor if you’d like. My freshman year roommate, senior Will Levine, used to call me a “Commie” because of my anti-American allegiance. But I just cannot root for a collection of NBA superstars against the world, especially when there seems to be little or no interest—even among the American players themselves...
...sports fan, you’re taught to root for the underdog. Unless you’re from New York, you hate the Yankees. It’s natural. Well, the Americans are the biggest favorite of them all. Thus, there’s no team I’d rather see lose...
...don’t really care about the Olympics, a team like Croatia or Spain might have enough power to knock off Goliath. It would still be a stunning defeat, but one that would send a wake up call to an American basketball system that is, frankly, easy to root against. Let’s just say superstar NBA players tend not to be model citizens...
...root, the premises of Padilla and Hamdi are twofold. First, America is either justified in responding to al Qaeda and its allies by invoking the laws of war—as opposed to relying on the criminal-justice system—or it isn’t. Second, our enemies’ terrorist methods are either legal under the rules and customs of war, or they aren’t. No amount of pedantic hairsplitting over “civil rights” and “due process” is going to work if it ignores those awkward...