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**Zhgpavye** · 08-29-2012, 10:09 AM

That is what happens when you are the only military around.
I guess it would have been better to allow a genocidal dictator take control of most of the Middle East. Is that what you are saying?
If you are living in an idealogical world where there are no evil people - you don't need protection, but in this world there are bad people.
I think even you know that without the global protection offered by the American military, a world map would look very different today...and peace would only be reserved for those who submit.

No, that's not what I am saying as is pretty clear from what I wrote.
It's not the point what kind of war is considered or for what reason. The index merely measures the absence of peace. The involvement in any war, for whatever reason, brings a country down on the list. Since you find e.g. the Iraq war justifiable, what does it matter to you that the USA is on the 85th spot ?
That's the point.

08-29-2012, 10:09 AM	#19
Zhgpavye Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 538 Senior Member	That is what happens when you are the only military around. I guess it would have been better to allow a genocidal dictator take control of most of the Middle East. Is that what you are saying? If you are living in an idealogical world where there are no evil people - you don't need protection, but in this world there are bad people. I think even you know that without the global protection offered by the American military, a world map would look very different today...and peace would only be reserved for those who submit. No, that's not what I am saying as is pretty clear from what I wrote. It's not the point what kind of war is considered or for what reason. The index merely measures the absence of peace. The involvement in any war, for whatever reason, brings a country down on the list. Since you find e.g. the Iraq war justifiable, what does it matter to you that the USA is on the 85th spot ? That's the point.
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