Conspiracy people are wacky.

I'm pretty sure the genital mutilations are more of a problem in African countries no?

Nope. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan It is very popular.

Saudi Arabia is no different than what the taliban had set up in Afghanistan really concerning Islamic law.

You people forget how Islamic Religous nuts kill people for stupid cartoons? Or remember Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini calling for Muslim British writer Solomon Rushdie to die because he wrote the book Satanic Verses.

I am surprised you people want to try and find reason with these countries and hope there is something good about them. These are people that use 5 year olds as human shields.

Fact is they are animals.

Well thats that.

very interesting

FACT: It is illegal for women to drive in Saudi Arabia.

That barbarism, torture, and degeneracy is still rampant, perhaps far more rampant since America invaded. Maybe you're right and those cultures can be changed using bombs and brute force, but I doubt it, unless those bombs wipe out everybody, or we maintain supremacy there over the course of centuries. Those countries are theocratic to the bone and ethnic divisions have existed there for thousands of years. They haven't known peace for millenia. Right now US forces are making deals with some of those groups to fight common enemies but what lurks just underneath is a seething hatred for American presence.

"we operate in a bewildering context of determined enemies and questionable allies, one where the balance of forces on the ground remains entirely unclear.." - http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1003638805

Any "victories" or "progress" we've made thus far have been quantitative, not qualitative, and merely temporal.