That&#x27;s the thing - there are no <i>obvious</i> problems. It&#x27;s very far from <i>obvious</i> how this will play out.<p>For example, regarding the &quot;intolerant, sexist culture&quot; you allude to. It&#x27;s easy to paint the middle east in broad strokes, but that misses crucial differences between countries and peoples, particularly as those countries were often Western inventions made by grouping disparate regions and populations.<p>For example, did you know that in 2010 (before even the first conflict against Bashar al-Assad), there were over 150 thousand Syrians in the US alone?