No shit. But there are already moderates and secular movements, progressive and otherwise within those societies. There have been for years and in some cases they've been quite successful. Unfortunately, the US was doing it's best to undermine and destroy them when those forces were much stronger than they are today. Now look who we get to deal with.
Fucking liberals, economists, technocrats, etc. don't seem to understand that the global poor, women suffering under patriarchies, peasants,and the rest don't want the US's help, they want us to get out of their way and let them change their own societies. You want to help? Pull the fuck out, stop propping up dictators and oil monarchies, stop plundering their resources and trying to turn them into Walmart consumers, and give their homegrown progressive movements some resources and some space to do what needs to be done. Sheesh.
every time I think you could not possibly be more clueless...