pay than what awaits us by by carrying on thinking that we can reform them.

That is exactly right, they don't want budweiser and blue jeans and miniskirts, they do want more of a voice and the internet though, I would not call them backward or uneducated. The arab spring happened for a reason, they want change, as is happening in turkey for better or worse, a country the EU begs to join its membership, as opposed to before. Nothing personal btw.