Poster boys for white privilege lie and denigrate Brazil

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Yes, because abandoning our athletes in a foreign country over a fairly minor crime would go over just great with recruiting athletes for the next Olympics.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Yes, because abandoning our athletes in a foreign country over a fairly minor crime would go over just great with recruiting athletes for the next Olympics.

meh, nobody's abandoning anybody, detaining a foreigner suspected of committing a crime if legal under current visa laws from my understanding.

"Leave them there" as posted by the second poster in this thread certainly suggests that they should get no help from the US. That's what I'm referring to. In reality, I'm sure their case will be closely watched by US diplomats. Lochte probably won't be extradited because US law doesn't allow extradition for misdemeanors.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

I'm quite serious about this proposal: leave them there. Let them get rammed by Brazil's system, corrupt or not. The Olympics are just a large, slick, glitzy handful of candy that the internationalists who worship the fading world order use as an example to demonize so called "isolationists" like me. I don't see how the Olympics warrant our tax dollars covering the costs of getting American athletes out of trouble, etc. The Olympic Opening Ceremony year after year becomes more of a propaganda show than the other. 

On another note, I do approve of the fact that Team USA is not covered by the taxpayers. I wasn't aware of that until tonight. Now is the time to tighten the purse string even more and send a message that it truly isn't a pressing concern.

Are you unaware of how consular protection works and that American citizens are entitled to it?

I am plenty aware. I'd just like to see some bureaucratic entanglement and delay tactics used. You can make a point with a whisper rather than a scream. Which is exactly the same logic that the Syrian air force used today when their jets came very close to US special forces today.

Sounds like a wonderful way to decimate the 2018/2020 Olympic teams due to lack of trust in the US Gov.