Ease of access to weapons of minor destruction
Potential for terriorist acts
Military capability/sophistication
Importance of religion in national life
Willingness to fight
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Saying a country is 'less safe' because of POTENTIAL for terrorism is lame. Oh noes, New Zealand has no visible targets and most terrorists don't know where it is! It is the winner! It basically means people at the top are weak pussies with no landmarks of note or role in the international world. Oh, and no fertilizer either.
To be honest, the US should have scored at the very bottom, since it would be difficult to argue against the statement that the US has been the greatest internationally destabilizing force in the world for the past few years. But that depends on how you define how much "peace" a country has. It's a very weird, ambiguous way of putting it.
"It's not evil for God to do it. Or for someone to do it at God's command."- Jonathan Boyd on baby-killing
"you guys are fascinated with the use of those "rules of logic" to the extent that you don't really want to discussus anything."- GC
"I do not believe Russian Roulette is a stupid act" - Embracer of Darkness
"Viagra commercials appear to save lives" - tharkûn on US health care.
Darth Wong wrote:To be honest, the US should have scored at the very bottom, since it would be difficult to argue against the statement that the US has been the greatest internationally destabilizing force in the world for the past few years.
So why's australia a dark blue? Weren't they in on OIF?
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Their criteria are kind of conflicting: a country like, say, the UK has many targets, so they need large police/military forces to protect them... which makes their 'peace' score lower anyway - even worse if those police/military forces are confrontational!
I don't know if how these rankings are weighted if at all, but it seems kind of strange that Greece is considered less peaceful than the UK and Canada, both of which are IFOR participants and one of which is the second largest MNF-Iraq partner.
I do not think the U.S. is the most peaceful country in the world, we are fighting on at least 4 different fronts. (Iraq, Afghanistan, operations in Africa that you hear about, and the Balkins.)
On the flipside I disagree with the map painted. It seemed to use to much information on what the "site thinks is unpeaceful."
MKSheppard wrote:So why's australia a dark blue? Weren't they in on OIF?
But John Howard says invading Iraq made Australia safer! I mean, how many terrorist attacks has Australia had since? There you go!
PS everything John Howard says is a lie.
Bah,,, Does any news media report Australia involvement at all?
I mean seriously, even in messages that trot out the Coalition of the Willing, I see Poland name more often than Australia.
Let him land on any Lyran world to taste firsthand the wrath of peace loving people thwarted by the myopic greed of a few miserly old farts- Katrina Steiner
MKSheppard wrote:So why's australia a dark blue? Weren't they in on OIF?
But John Howard says invading Iraq made Australia safer! I mean, how many terrorist attacks has Australia had since? There you go!
PS everything John Howard says is a lie.
Bah,,, Does any news media report Australia involvement at all?
I mean seriously, even in messages that trot out the Coalition of the Willing, I see Poland name more often than Australia.
Shhh.....
We don't want to admit that a country that was a penal colony is one of our allies.
My real question is whether or not Stark's ancestors were prisoners or guards.
All kidding aside, it's probably more 'newsworthy' when a former East Bloc country sides with the US than it is when longtime ally and fellow Vietnam War combatant Australia does so.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."- General Sir Charles Napier
