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Another America sucks thread from Wes. I'm sure MMav will be in here telling Wes to move to Iceland.
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The index, now in its second year, ranks 140 countries according to their relative states of peace, based on factors such as military expenditure and respect for human rights, the homicide rate and other things.
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The U.S. ranking was one place lower than last year and way below countries such as Costa Rica, Madagascar and Chile.
This year, Iceland was selected the most peaceful place, beating last year's winner Norway, which came in third. Denmark was No. 2.
Israel, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia and Iraq were at the bottom of the list.
I'd sure feel safer walking the streets of Costa Rica, than I would the streets of the USA. Hmmm...Somalia, Israel, Somalia, Israel...Israel, Iraq, Israel, Iraq...Hmmm...Afghanistan, Israel....Yeah, birds of a feather alright.
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"The U.S. does so badly because has the highest proportion of jailed people in the world. And it has high levels of homicide and high potential for terrorist attacks," Killelea told The Associated Press. "Its overall score is a reflection of that. The index is not making any moral statements by the ranking."
Jailed people & homocides would make sense. Potential for terrorist attacks? How does the possibility of something, make a place violent?
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Re: Research ranks U.S. as more violent than Serbia
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Gavin Hayman, director of campaigns for Global Witness, a non-governmental organization that lobbies against corruption and human rights abuse, said the results were slightly skewed.
"The people who did this study only look at peace and the absence of war, and this approach may throw up some perverse readings," he said.
"The U.S. has done some nasty things geopolitically, and it ranks poorly because of its high military spending, but that's a little unfair as they are the ones that keep the world's waterways free, and play a role in protecting global assets," Hayman said.
Nice pull quote you chose, wes, why not this one?
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Nice. I used to bone a Hawain Tropics girl from Taunton way back in my partying days. She was half English, and half Jamaican, and totally dirty.
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Research ranks U.S. as more violent than Serbia
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