Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 69 Nations Have More US Troops Than Olympic Athletes

Quoting Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>:Weird data.Point?
in the race for the gold medal in basketball the U.S first string NBA
players like Kobe Bryant and Le Bron James are playing the NBA second
and third string on other teams.Let the college kids or foreign
equivalents who are sort of amateurs play!

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> 69 Nations Have More US Troops Than Olympic Athletes
> Sunday, 29 July 2012 10:25 By David
> Swanson<index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=user&id=44690&Itemid=252>, WarIsACrime.org<http://warisacrime.org/content/69-nations-have-more-us-troops-olympic-athletes>
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> Report
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> Here is a link to a list of U.S. troops deployed to various nations
> around the world:
> PDF.<http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/MILITARY/history/hst1009.pdf>
> These are permanent deployments openly admitted to by the U.S.
> military. When U.S. Special Forces drive off a bridge in Mali, as
> recently happened, we discover that U.S. troops are in Mali in
> greater numbers than we knew, but those troops aren't listed here or
> considered in the calculation below. No secret forces are considered
> here, no allied forces funded or trained or armed by the United
> States, and of course no drones.
>
> Here is a link to the number of athletes participating in the 2012
> Summer Olympics from countries around the world:
> Link.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics#Participants>
>
> Many nations have sent very small delegations. Many nations have a
> very small U.S. troop presence. In many nations the U.S. troop
> presence falls just short of or exactly equals the size of the
> Olympic team.
>
> In 69 nations, there is a larger U.S. military presence than the
> nation's Olympic team. This count excludes the oceans of the world,
> in which over 100,000 U.S. troops are stationed, but which of course
> don't have Olympic teams. The count includes, however, Diego Garcia,
> which could have an Olympic team if we hadn't removed all the people
> to make room for the military base. And it includes other nations
> that have been demoted to U.S. territories. It also includes South
> Korea, despite the U.S. military not releasing the numbers, because
> the U.S. military has many times the number of troops (and growing)
> there than South Korea has athletes on its Olympic team.
>
> The question arises, of course, why a nation that is trailing many
> poorer nations in education, health, security, sustainability, and
> infrastructure is paying to create such a global presence of
> representatives with guns rather than athletes with Chinese-made
> sports uniforms.
>
> Here are the 69 nations:
>
> * Afghanistan
> * Bahamas
> * Bahrain
> * Bangladesh
> * Barbados
> * Belgium
> * Bolivia
> * Bosnia Herzegovina
> * Botswana
> * Burma
> * Cambodia
> * Chad
> * Congo
> * Cuba
> * Cyprus
> * Diego Garcia
> * Djibouti
> * Egypt
> * El Salvador
> * Germany
> * Ghana
> * Greece
> * Greenland
> * Guam
> * Guinea
> * Haiti
> * Honduras
> * Indonesia
> * Iraq
> * Italy
> * Japan
> * Jordan
> * Kuwait
> * Laos
> * Liberia
> * Macedonia
> * Malta
> * Marshall Islands
> * Mauritania
> * Nepal
> * Netherlands
> * Nicaragua
> * Northern Mariana Islands
> * Norway
> * Oman
> * Pakistan
> * Panama
> * Paraguay
> * Peru
> * Philippines
> * Portugal
> * Puerto Rico
> * Qatar
> * Saudi Arabia
> * Singapore
> * Somalia
> * South Korea
> * Spain
> * Sri Lanka
> * St. Helena
> * Tanzania
> * Thailand
> * Turkey
> * United Arab Emirates
> * United Kingdom
> * United States
> * Wake Island
> * Yemen
> * Zimbabwe
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