I don't think anyone is arguing everything can work there. No one is talking about converting them to democracy. Let's start with basic things like letting women travel without permission from a male guardian. Pretty sure they are the only country to require that by law.
agree. I sat near to 2 ladies (over age 18) on a plane. Their father was with them, and he needed to accompany them on the next flight from USA to return to Saudi Arabia, as well.
(Father now lives in USA with wife and 2 younger kids.)
These 2 ladies could not go on the plane alone without him. They told me that they wish that they could stay in the USA. One of them is going to medical school in Saudi Arabia.
It is interesting that they seem to have an intelligent and advance country, however they cannot allow several ladies to travel without a related male accompanying them.