The Saudis are building a border fence ― maybe they’ll give us a field test for doing one on the Mexican border

Saudi Arabia wants to fence its border with Iraq, the whole 560 miles.

I’m not fully joking when I say this might be a sociological, geographical, and security laboratory for fencing our southern border.

And if the Saudis can spend $1.8 billion for border security there, even if in a lower-priced economy, why can’t we spend another $5-10 billion, not counting fence costs, above what we do now?

At the same time, doesn’t that say the Saudis agree with the U.N. assessment of the situation on the ground in Iraq?