The $64,000 question

Why do we want to adopt?
Or, more specifically, why do we want to adopt when we can have babies the old-fashioned way?
Because to the Husband and I parenting is about more than genetics. Because there are enough children in the world who need loving homes that we don't feel the need to make any more. To wit, there are more than 15 millions AIDS orphans in the world. There are millions more children orphaned for economic reasons or gender biases. Yes, it would be nice if these children could be nurtured, loved, and taken care of in their own countries, but that's not the reality. I know most people feel that without the blood/genetic tie, they won't feel bonded to their children. I respect that. The Husband and I happen to feel differently. I'm not concerned if my kids have my genes or if they look like me. In fact, the child that I carried and birthed looks NOTHING like me. In the cellular rumble that must have gone on in the zygote that became The Girl, my husband's genes kicked my genes ass. Seriously, she looks exactly like him (really, like his mother, so I birthed my mother-in-law) except maybe for her top lip. That's my contribution.
The $64,001 Question:
Why aren't we adopting domestically?
It's a fair question. There are certainly plenty of children in the U.S. in need of homes. But it's a tricky thing, domestic adoption. You can go the private route, and get yourself a newborn, but there is plenty of demand for newborns so these kids will not be without homes. Adopting out of the foster system is notoriously difficult. The kids available tend to be older with varying degrees of special needs. And while we're not after a newborn, we also don't want a child who's older than our daughter. She should be the big sister. Also, there are still institutional barriers to trans-racial adoptions. Plus, I feel like the stakes are higher, that a kid in an Indian orphanage has less chance of a decent life than one that comes up through the problematic US foster care system. Finally, the Husband and I are big travelers, internationalists, if you will. It just makes more sense to us.
You can probably tell by the vehemence of my justification that I feel a little bad/hypocritical about this. I do. It might be selfish but we want an imported kid.