A long-standing foreign leader, friendly with autocrats and recently reelected despite accusations of corruption, stepped down Tuesday just days after the threat of U.S. intervention.Variations on that story, in one form or another, have appeared in the pages of The Washington Post many times over the years. The difference this time is that this world leader isn't a despotic head of state: He's Sepp Blatter, the globally criticized president of FIFA, who announced his resignation just days after arrests were made in a corruption investigation led by U.S.