Foreign Policy By Racial Affinity

A John Derbyshire classic:

"At some level, I'll agree, this is not our business.North of five million people have been slaughtered in the Congo this pasttwelve years, and nobody much (no, not me—how about you?) has lost a winkof 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...