2. Many? How many?

3. Savages? What savages? I sure as heck don't think the people of Afghanistan or Iraq are savages. the ones I have met (men only, sadly) have been reasonably bright and literate. I assume that the women are about the same (except for the Afghan women who, though of probably equal intelligence, had been intentionally kept in repressive ignorance by the Taliban). They simply live in a different culture. In the case of the Afghans, mostly rural pastoralists or agriculturalist; in the case of Iraqis, far more varied. But in neither case are they savages.