We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn't have issues on foreign or domestic policy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.
Foreign policy is important.
Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.
Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
What the Olympics and other mega-events have shown is that the significant investment required to host an international games successfully has the power to transform a region, and even a nation.
Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.
The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.