ARTICLE: "In a twist, USA's Asians head to the Mountain West: Migration is fueling diversity in areas that have been mostly white," by Haya El Nasser, USA Today, 7 July 2008, p. 1A.

Last decade, Asian population outgrowing Hispanics in 14 states in west of Mississippi. "The explosive growth and rising clout of Asian Americans," notes the article. This is crucial for my long-term goal of reorienting US strategic alliances to countries like China and India and to break the assumption that, as goes Europe, so goes the only alliance worth maintaining. In short, every little bit helps. I don't need a "league of democracies," but a collection of natural frontier integrators, and those allies will always be the newcomers to the system (other than us). You want to build and extend "empires"? Then go with the empire builders of the age, and remember how you once behaved during your own "rise."