China

There is something very funny about watching Chinese officials scramble around trying to reign in the many, many people protesting China's human rights violations, support for Sudan, oppression of Tibet or pollution in the run up to the Olympic games. It is obvious that right now, China is accountable to no one in the international community, and the only hitch in their giddyup are individual people of conscience. And there they are at every Olympic oriented event. There is something about watching the next superpower send its thugs to tackle some poor guy with a Tibetan flag....

Of course, President Bush has already publicly stated that he will not boycott the Olympics or the Opening Ceremonies because he views the Olympics as a "sporting event..." So the Chinese have nothing to fear from the world's oldest democracy. Now if they could just get rid of that pesky Llama and his followers.