Unfortunately, the people who won their elections are in favor of sharia law which is worse than what secular saddam had.

Attacking, killing, destroying seems like a very 12th century thing to me. And here we are trying to teach them how to get out of a 12th century mindset.

I believe it takes time for a culture to grow and bombing it doesn't act like a catalyst. It does the exact opposite. They were pushed further back ... The level of civilized living that they were just getting accustomed to was destroyed again. This will cause more fanatics with an excuse to avenge their friends and families.

Afghanistan is the result of the last war in that region. Russia is the reason for that mess and then later the US ditched it and pakistani fanatics took over driving it into the stone age. Hopefully, Iraq will have a better fate than what happened to Afghanistan.