Patronizing Nigeria's Team is Foreign Policy to Right-Thinking Americans

Depending upon your political persuasion, it was taking care of business or meddling in your business when the U.S. gave Nigeria the business, 156-73, in Group A Olympic men's basketball competition.

Although NBA MVP LeBron James scored only nine points and didn't play the second half with fellow A-lister Kobe Bryant, the African Sun Times had a pity party, calling the U.S. contingent a "show-off" team. Do those opposed to American exceptionalism think the U.S. was a "terrorist" for attacking Nigeria's self-esteem? Should the hardwood carnage be called "a man-made disaster?"

U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski bristled over suggestions that the 83-point drubbing represented the Americans going too far running up the score when it wasn't necessary. There was an element of showmanship, but a subsequent 99-94 decision over Lithuania clearly conveyed there is never a reason not to always put the pedal to the metal.

Krzyzewski, similar to the overwhelming majority of Army graduates, has forgotten more about ethics, fair play, honor, integrity and patriotism than any clueless clown detractor ever will know. And he has a great memory! Did Coach K whine after Duke was demolished by UNLV in the 1990 NCAA Tournament championship game? No, he came back the next year to defeat the same team at the Final Four.

Nonetheless, ESPN analyst Kurt Rambis said it seemed as if the U.S. ran up the score because it was "trying to look for three-point shots (made 29)" rather than "trying to attack the basket." It appears as if Left Coast product Rambis agrees with the 25% of voters who thought the U.S. either "looked like a bully" or took "a lot of 3s" in a USA Today poll inquiring whether observers had "any problem with USA Basketball score vs. Nigeria."

"Wake up and smell the Commie!" The percentage of in-your-face folks concerned about the disparity is essentially the same as self-professed liberals in America according to a Gallup poll. Of course, progressive tenets support the government taking responsibility for fixing social injustice because it is the only force strong enough to bring fairness to the masses.

So, the big, bad corporation (U.S.) with all of the assets handed to them took advantage of the middle class (Nigeria) incapable of prospering without foreign aid. Well, Nigeria probably should at least be deemed upper middle class insofar as the country has supplied numerous college basketball notables over the years such as All-American Akeem Olajuwon (Houston) and all-conference selections Akin Akin-Otiko (Oral Roberts), Peter Aluma (Liberty), Tunji Awojobi (Boston University), Yinka Dare (George Washington), Benson Egemonye (Niagara), Festus Ezeli (Vanderbilt), Andrew Lovedale (Davidson), Uche Nsonwu-Amadi (Wyoming), Julius Nwosu (Liberty), Dinma Odiakosa (Illinois State), Ime Oduok (Loyola Marymount), Ugonna Onyekwe (Penn) and Ugo Udezue (Wyoming).

Never underestimate the me generation gimme-gimme-gimme throng. If reduced to a class-warfare argument by the intellectually impoverished, what does the U.S. need to do to appease the undefined "fair share" standard? In the aftermath of the hoop humiliation the U.S. handed Nigeria, the West African nation's citizens (1/2 Christian and 1/2 Muslim) might be entitled to the following "Head Start" reparations and "collective salvation" damages to make them whole even if the "Peace Corps" contributions help bankrupt our nation: Right to vote in U.S. election (especially if a felon or illegal immigrant; military concession not so much), subsidizing illegitimacy if their "Fluke" freebie condoms fail to work properly, ability to become "clean and articulate" by accessing Obamacare, free cell phone upgrade (Obamaphone), food allowance to spend on whatever organic-only goodies they want, bonus if they say they believe global warming isn't junk science or don't use the word "terrorist", private beach vacation on Gulf Coast (timed when "Bay of Rigs" tar balls aren't there), free copies of Rev. Wrong sermons blessing America, enhanced wardrobe including jewelry to match latest gangsta rapper bling, free business consultations with ex-ACORN employees as part of a "shovel-ready" stimulus to get them back to "work," etc., etc., etc. Amid the "hope and change," maybe the U.S. could also underwrite them securing access to a transgender Indonesian nanny like President Obama had prior to him moving to Hawaii and subsequently becoming a JV basketball player for Occidental (Calif.) before community organizing, serving as a U.S. Senator from Illinois and attaining POTUS status while moonlighting as ESPN's Bracketology Czar under Joe Lunardi (with spinmeister Andy Katz filling the role of a perpetually-perplexed Jay Carney wannabee distorting the riot-causing impact of some feckless film).

Bleeding-heart libs probably want the U.S. to show some heart or else they'll eventually conduct stench-filled protests at basketball offices resembling the ill-conceived Wall Street occupation. Is the U.S. supposed to return to competing with collegians? But the collegians could also win by too wide of a margin. If so, is the U.S. then supposed to deploy high schoolers and keep working its way down to a squad full of minimum-age 15-year-olds?

What if the U.S., embracing collective salvation, gave Nigeria the ultimate hoop handout - Carmelo Anthony welfare? It's an all-time record payment of 37 points that could be added to Nigeria's output while being subtracted from the U.S. team. Would winning by nine points be acceptable to the shameless tax-and-spend crowd? Will they ever include b-u-d-g-e-t and v-i-c-t-o-r-y in their lexicon? At what point would soaking the rich (U.S.) be enough?

Heaven only knows the outrage in some disturbed quarters if the U.S., shackled by white guilt, had clobbered Kenya (native country of Obama's deadbeat dad) rather than Nigeria. Leading rebounder Kevin Love, the lone white player on the U.S. roster, would have promptly been branded a racist along with the majority of the coaching staff by Al "Not So" Sharpton of MSNBC (More Socialist Nonsense By Cablecasters). Perhaps they would have been summoned to the White House by AG Eric Holdout to conduct a beer summit after an ill-informed politico "acted stupidly" by getting "all wee wee'd up" prejudging the result by "feeling" the facts instead of "knowing" the facts.

At what juncture would nanny state advocates be mollifed, anyway? If the U.S. was ahead by 50 points with 10 or more minutes remaining, should they simply halt competition as if it was some grade school game? Should the superior U.S. players go without sneakers and/or with one hand tied behind their back to play fair? Should they be forced to shoot free throws blindfolded to allow the trailing team more of a chance to catch up? Exactly what is the Left's Fairness Doctrine?

Maybe their tired old ideology would force the U.S. to play an Old Timers' squad comprised of Krzyzewski and his Olympic coaching staff/aides - Jim Boeheim, Chris Collins, Mike D'Antoni, Johnny Dawkins, Nate McMillan, Rudy Tomjanovich and Steve Wojciechowski - if their regular players were too far in front. However, the geriatric group might have been fired up for one last hurrah after Olympic organizers didn't allow them to march with the U.S. delegation at the opening ceremony to try to reduce the number of people involved.

And involved is the key word even if you have a myopic motto such as "Resist We Much!" Self-reliant multi-tasking Americans will lean forward in their TV chairs the remainder of the Games hoping the U.S. hoopsters win a basketball contest by 100 points while eating Chick-fil-A with a supersized Big Gulp (at least 83% larger drink than 16 ounces) and make an Olympian donation to a right-thinking organization that would alienate parasites practicing the soft racism of low expectations.

It might not be in our lifetime, but Nigeria will eventually defeat the U.S. in basketball; especially if there is an escalation of a dumbing-down decline of America. Conservatively, the milestone will occur after Nigeria does the business of hard work on its own via personal sweat equity; not in the midst of accepting any pity or handout from spread-the-wealth leeches. When Nigeria's players cross that threshold, they shouldn't listen to any self-absorbed individual saying: "You didn't build that!" In the meantime, they should refuse to accept any pink(o) certificate acknowledging participation and dream only of "earning " bronze/silver/gold.