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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


"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.

Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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