Hooping with the Enemy

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/ ... ngforpeace

i found this article pretty interesting.

If it only were that easy to prevent war.
Imagine the Olympics as a substitute for war.

isnt that like what the greeks or whatever did? use them instead of war?

You are right, and look how successful it is.

It's certainly an ambitious project. It's naive to think that basketball could really solve such conflicts but it would seem that for now it's making some small difference in the lives of the people who are involved.