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In reply to the discussion: Who is Hillary Clinton to say Assad must go? [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)sheiks from as far back as the Bronze Age so they aren't going to be like us. However, Qatar treats their women better than their neighbors in Saudi Arabia. They can vote, get a higher education, work, drive, go out alone to do their errands and they don't have to wear an Abaya. The Sheik and his family have built an educational structure that requires all the children to be educated through the twelfth grade. They have the most modern health care system in the area. In contrast to other ME countries except maybe Israel, they are really trying to modernize and build a democracy. Yes, they still have problems especially when it come to human rights of their immigrant population, but they are passing laws and trying to rectify what is cultural. And they have the highest GDP in the area and seem to be using their gas and oil revenues for the people, not to buy property in Beverly Hills and gamble in Monte Carlo. I mean I think they are a far cry from Assad and Syria in their approach.