At the Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan catches some classic institutionalized racism.
Pathetic display by John Derbyshire

Derbyshire’s thoughts here…

“At some level, I’ll agree, this is not our business. North of five million people have been slaughtered in the Congo this past twelve years, and nobody much (no, not me—how about you?) has lost a wink of sleep over it … [But] the Congo is nothing to me. Israel is something to me. It’s an outpost of my civilization, organized on principles I agree with, inhabited by people I could live at ease with. They defend themselves, their borders, their interests, with the kind of vigor and thick-skinned determination I’d like to see my nation display. (If only!) I admire them and wish them well.

There’s an affinity. In some tenuous sense, they are me, and I am them. The Gazans? I’ll care about them right after I start caring about the Congo.”

Emphasis by Sullivan.

If what Derbyshire says is an accurate observation of how foreign policy should be determined by countries, isn’t obvious what will happen to as the demographic power shift occurs in this century?

Brasil is an emerging as a huge economic powerhouse with a population of 200MM and over 50% of that population people of color (who recently sided with Turkey on a few key UN votes).

Turkey already a NATO powerhouse and teetering on the edge of the Middle East and European …

More interestingly, what happens as the demographics change sharply in the United States?

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