They obviously weren't in the Stone Age before we bombed them. There obviously aren't more schools, infrastructure (that's water, sewer, electricity, and roads for those of you educated by government schools), and rights now that there's a new regime. It ain't a bed of roses and there's some fucked up stuff going on in Baghdad, but your Stone Age assessment shows quite a substantial lack of understanding.

In any case, this story took place in Saudi Arabia, which arguably is the most technologically advanced country in the Mid East, save probably for Iran. I'm sorry, but your "we bombed Iraq" excuse doesn't really hold up no matter what way you look at it. You can't blame all the fucked up shit going on in the world on America. This chick got 90 lashes for being raped in a modernized Islamic state. That's how it is.