This week, the soccer world was shaken to its foundations by the arrest of top officials of FIFA on U.S. corruption charges. This was the Obama administration’s doing — at long last, Obama has made a foreign policy decision that is both popular and sound.

FIFA is the governing body of international soccer, best known for putting on the world’s largest sporting event every four years – the prestigious World Cup. The charges allege what many have long suspected – that FIFA officials invite bribery bidding-wars in order to determine where games are held, who gets to televise them and nearly any other imaginable decision FIFA makes.