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Entry: "The Way The World Looks" Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_way_the_world_looks#26160 Post contents: This idea that his blackness will be some great help may matter a little in Europe, which has embraced the leftist narrative that the entire West is only now redeeming itself, previously characterized in its core values by an unbroken chain of evils stemming from the Crusades, serfdom, slavery, nationalism, and culminating in the Holocaust. America taking this step may matter to them and give us some moral credibility that it lacks, as they have now made us co-responsible for the Holocaust and equally evil because of the alleged Holocaust of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In other words, it is important for Germany, collaborationist France, and other European nations to drag us down to their moral level, and the way to do that is by making a big deal about slavery and alleged US complicity in the Holocaust. But our wealth, power, foreign policy, and distinctiveness will continue to annoy and anger the Third World, and there are enough internal divisions--between Shia/Sunni, tribe and tribe, Protestant and Catholic--that a minority leader of the U.S. won't mean much. They're much more concerned with whether an ethnic Chinese has too much power in Indonesia or whther the new leader of Bolivia is an Indian to care about our own parochical concerns. Plus the popular conspiracy thinking of the Third World will make them think he's just a puppet anyway, like the old Rajs under the British in India. Sent at: 2008 09 07