Some countries a lot less democratic than the US end up with much more wisdom in foreign policy.
If you have some specific objection with what I wrote, then quote it and argue against it. If I return to this thread, then I will try to respond.
There was a case in the news today: Some US woman reporter went into Syria (she couldn't have been too bright) and met in a room with a lot of women and children. The men were mostly off fighting.
One of the women was 14 and had a small baby. The reporter explained that the main reason was that the family wanted the girl to get married so that she would have more protection against rape (the reporter didn't go into what might have been the result had the girl been raped). Then the reporter went on about how horrible it was for the girl to have a baby at age 14 (and get married and pregnant at age 13). Yes, there are potentially some medical problems due to her young age and lack of physical development. And, as the reporter made clear, the girl was not going to be able to finish high school.
Gads! The US reporter was projecting onto that poor family in Syria her strong US views about women in the US.
Instead, consider: The women and children in the room looked well enough fed and clothed. They were not obviously suffering. The young mother actually looked quite happy and calm and really happy holding her baby. The baby looked good, calm, happy, well fed and cared for (the US reporter did mention that the baby had not yet had some inoculations it should have). Otherwise the young mother looked like she was being a good mother. Moreover, the young mother was just surrounded by family -- her mother, brothers, sisters, likely aunts, etc. She was in an 'extended family' and no doubt just awash in emotional support and feeling of belonging. There was no shortage of expertise on how to care for the young baby. That she had a baby at age 14 is not ideal but, apparently, Mother Nature is not wildly against it. Also, likely in some Muslim countries, such young mothers are not so rare. As far as finishing high school is concerned, commonly in Muslim countries that's not a big consideration for girls (although maybe Syria, like some Muslim countries, except for the civil war, is more advanced about such things).
That's just the way it is in some Muslim countries. I don't want to live that way, but since they've been living that way for 1000+ years, it can't be all bad. For the person under stress, it looked to me that it was only the US reporter.
Net, the US needs to be more accepting of other cultures. That doesn't mean we want US girls 14 being mommies, but it does mean that what that girl was doing in that house and extended family in that country was not so bad there.
If the US gets itself all bent out of shape over lives such as that of that young mother, then we will be chasing absurd 'foreign adventures' until we are white from loss of blood. To avoid this, we have to wise up.
