This is the 'other side' of the development argument. These things take time, OR money. You have to be willing to invest one or the other. It happens all over the world. China has the same issue, not enough time to build infrastructure, so 'waste' is disposed of via undesirable methods. This triggers protest, which triggers debate, which I think is good. Probably speeds the development of infrastructure. Now in the interest of full disclosure, I've worked with Halliburton moving between Houston and DC. So I'm pretty big on infrastructure.

I'm also familiar with all sides of this argument. I'm unsure how you accomplish what we are trying to accomplish, without incurring some downsides. I think it's important to ask, in an informed manner, whether the good outweighs the bad. Everyone has to do this, America, China, Indonesia, Malaysia etc. Now you, personally, may not like the answers that the policy makers agree on. But that's how it works.

Sometimes that means that there are fires visible from space. But it also means that there will be less conflict in the MidEast region in the future. A lot of these things are connected.