By Patrick Appel
Fallows explains why we should want the Olympics to go well:
...the only thing that will happen if these Olympics somehow go bad is a concerted focusing of blame, inside China, on the foreigners who want to "hurt the feelings of the Chinese people" and hold China down. Outsiders who think that a pollution emergency or a spiraling protest would focus domestic blame on the Chinese government are dreaming.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/07/the-nationalistic-torch/213645/
