May 20, 2008...6:21 pm
US 97th on list of peaceful nations
(Photo of “Shock and Awe”)
Iceland is the world’s most peaceful nation while the United States is ranked among the bottom third, according to a study released on Tuesday.
The “Global Peace Index,” compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, ranked the United States 97th out of 140 countries according to how peaceful they were domestically and how they interacted with the outside world.
The United States slipped from 96th last year, but was still ahead of foe Iran which ranked 105th. It, however, lagged Belarus, Cuba, South Korea, Chile, Libya and others which were listed as more peaceful.
Iraq, which the United States invaded in 2003, leading to the toppling of Saddam Hussein, ranked lowest on the index. Afghanistan, another country invaded by the United States this decade, was also in the bottom five, along with Sudan, Somalia and Israel.
There is no excuse for this. And Obama is getting slammed for wanting to use diplomacy with other countries? (Something completely foreign to this administration..). What’s THAT about..?
7 Comments
May 20, 2008 at 6:38 pm
97th? That good?
Wow…
May 20, 2008 at 6:51 pm
You mean to tell me another country has illegally invaded another nation for oil and corporate profits killing over 100k of their innocent civilians?
43 of them have?
come on now, the Russian judge must have thought it was the Olympics and given us a 3 again.
May 20, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I guess the U.S.A. ranked so high because we left leaning bloggers aren’t in jail for political crimes.
May 20, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Yet…
May 20, 2008 at 8:58 pm
This list is pretty meaningless as Willie indicates above.
Iran ranks lower than the US? Who have they invaded?
Ah! From the link to raw story:
“The index was launched under the auspices of the Institute for Economics and Peace, a new think tank that looks at the relationship between economics, business and peace.
Supporters of the index urged policymakers to focus more on education, wealth, and well-functioning government and pointed to the role of business in creating more stability.”
So the basis of the index is about money and business creating more stability? This sounds like a corporatist think tank rather than a real world reality based group to me.
Nowhere, it seems, are the concepts of ethics or compassion mentioned as part of their criteria.
Oh, thats right, those are librul concepts. Silly me…
May 20, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Well, if Corporations can find a way to make peace more profitable than war, there will be no more war.
May 22, 2008 at 6:26 am
great post
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