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Angry Bird Lindsey Graham Wants to Boycott the 2014 Russian Olympics if Snowden's Still There

Matt Welch | 7.16.2013 5:10 PM

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"I would. I would just send the Russians the most unequivocal signal I could send them," the awful South Carolina Republican tells The Hill.

How bad is this idea? Even Sen. Graham's partner in saber-rattling, Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), isn't buying it:

"There's many things we can do, but I think the experience of cancelling the Olympics the last time around wasn't very good," McCain said. 

Link via the Twitter feed of John Avlon.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

PoliticsSportsWorldCultureCivil LibertiesPolicyRussiaEdward SnowdenNSA
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