According to right-wing Keynesian actor Ben Stein, the "most heroic, ethically courageous, morally resolute men and women in the world today" are those colonizing the Middle East for the US and its satraps. Indeed, these federal employees are "saints in body armor, men and women of staggering moral virtue in a time and place when those words mean very little in the modern world. Their lives have the most meaning of any lives being lived on this earth right this moment."