>and let them subsist off the land.
Yea, but know whats gonna happen?
The Indians will setup shops & sell cloth & bangles & prob an underpaid clothing manufacturer.
The Arabs will buy the whole place & start drilling for water & buiild a desal plant
The Africans will rob & rape everyone whilst importing as much scrap tin fencing they can whilst complaining about the lack of freshwater.
Ya all know how it goes :-)