A modest proposal for Middle East peace?
Calculating the various alternative ways the money the United States has spent on Iraq might better have been used has become something of a cottage industry. Scott MacLeod of Time offers a new way to slice it: To sweeten efforts to get Israelis and Palestinians to settle their 60-year dispute, Americans could have written a ...
Calculating the various alternative ways the money the United States has spent on Iraq might better have been used has become something of a cottage industry. Scott MacLeod of Time offers a new way to slice it:
To sweeten efforts to get Israelis and Palestinians to settle their 60-year dispute, Americans could have written a check for every Israeli and Palestinian--17 million people--to the tune of $117,000.
(Yes, this is obviously not feasible. But it's interesting.)
Calculating the various alternative ways the money the United States has spent on Iraq might better have been used has become something of a cottage industry. Scott MacLeod of Time offers a new way to slice it:
To sweeten efforts to get Israelis and Palestinians to settle their 60-year dispute, Americans could have written a check for every Israeli and Palestinian–17 million people–to the tune of $117,000.
(Yes, this is obviously not feasible. But it's interesting.)
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