Steve Sailer wonders out loud a thing I wonder a lot too: Why don’t we just BUY a couple more MidEast countries? We bought Egypt, and it’s stayed bought. (Though as Steve notes, just shoveling $$$ into the national bank account is probably much less efficient that sending it to individual Swiss bank accounts.)

Syria should be cheaper than Egypt. I bet even Iran could be bought. We’re spending $100 billion a year on the Iraq War. I bet you could get a nice fat portfolio of MidEast politicians & their countries for a lot less than that.