Yea, I'd say that the degree of our compassions and actions often correspond with the degrees of difference in skin color or religious preference. I'm looking at this from a strictly war-criming and "need to stop X" perspective. When the skin color and religion gets closer to white/christian in a place subjected to humanitarian catastrophe, we tend to get to the "we need to do something about this" point a helluva lot quicker than when it's a non-white/non-christian situation. But if we want to be the shining beacon on the hill for the world to follow, what does it say about us when our policy seems to be "will help out only if you're sufficiently white/christian?" How's that look for us on the world stage? Can Eliot Cohen comment on this please? X-D