Which country is biggest threat to peace?

[TCO]

Just send your sex-starved red-labiaed Finn-girls over here. That will help relations.

[Flatlander Fox]

Originally posted by Trajanus
And besides, I for one don't ask for US troops to barge in the Balkans and act like big daddy punishing that bad bad children again.. European peacekeeping troops should be all that is needed. US gov is a big threat to world peace because it wants its way everywhere on the world, it has to go according to what they want, so stfu

Too bad nobody else in Europe thinks like this. Since you let the war in Bosnia rage on for years, and collectively wrung your hands at Kosovo.

Talk, Talk, Talk is all many Euros want to do.

[JCG]

The U.S. is the biggest POTENTIAL threat to peace. (a small yet important difference)

[Lancer]

The US >>IS<< the biggest threat to world peace. We're going to launch a war to stomp every mass murdering two bit dictator trying to get nukes and go big time. If we don't we end up w/ blackmailers like NK. I have zero problem with being a part of the biggest threat, I like it.

World peace is the holy cow of the left, to me it's a burger on the hoof.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Lancer
We're going to launch a war to stomp every mass murdering two bit dictator trying to get nukes and go big time.

Right, you're doing this all in the name of human rights, sure. That's probably the reason why the US is beside Somalia the only nation that hasn't signed the "Rights of Children charta" of the UN...
Anyhow, don't be so proud of "stomp every murdering etc.". You actually supported a lot of cruel massmurdering dictators (like Saddam, back in those times when he only nerve-gased the Shiites and didn't invade Kuwait).
If it were for nukes, you should take all your forces and up to North Korea - those guys are really completely nuts and actually THREATEN peace, while Saddam was busy suppressing his own poor people (which is damn bad), but NOTHING points to him being involved in the terrorist attacks nor islamic terrorism in general!
The only thing the US attack does is making the whole muslim world even more angry. Even in Turkey, your allies, a vast majority is against the war, yet you force their heads of state to let you use their bases. They'll be pissed at that, you can guarantee. The US want their war against Iraq, and as usual they don't care what everyone else says in this world, creating more conflict.

[lightblue]

From a logical perspective this result is logical. The US are the only ones threatening force and projecting it over large distances. Iraq/NK can grumble their idle threats but the would only affect their own region (it is not like NK can send a carrier battlegroup to lay waste to Sydney or London...). As such the US is the greatest threat to peace, but then again as some say war could lead to decent results and might sometimes be necessary. I think the reasons should be the humanitarian ones and not to raise cash for your buddies in the arms industry, but then again I am not a American citizen and i didn;t vote Bush in.

[Kingof the Apes]

The poll has choices between Iraq, NK and USA in the year 2003. In 2003, the biggest threat is the US, of course, but the whole reason is so that in future years Iraq or NK will not be. What would you rather have, superpower NK or Iraq or superpower US?

[SlowwHand]

Greenland.

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Gatekeeper
Oh, yeah! We're BAAADDDD. **does the evil dance, wearing jackboots stained w/the gore of hundreds of millions of innocents crushed beneath the American war machine**

Just send your sex-starved red-labiaed Finn-girls over here. That will help relations.

[Tripledoc]

Originally posted by Azazel


well, most nations did that after the end of the cold war.

Israel and Japan are the proletariat of the western imperialist powers. The United States and Europe gained huge and stable markets after the collapse of the of Soviet Union - in Eastern Europe and Latin America. (Well the Americans did not succed in following up on that, but they are not under the same time pressure as the Europeans aganst Communist revanchism - and the anti-communist psy-ops operation - the free market idea- is beginning to wear off)

As such Israel and potentially Japan are dangerous because they might seek to revise the present carving up of the world.

The United States is dangerous because it is immensely powerful and is allowed to use force against it's own citizens more excessively than any other western nation.
And has a large infrastucture and personel for controlling the populace in place.

Europe is only a threat to world peace if it is pushed hard enough - so that the Europeans begin to share a common worldview. However the chance that they will fight against each other over economic issues is greater. l

[Pekka]

If those were the options, then the US definitely. No question. But.. in the future.. I could see NK becoming something of a threat for all of us. Iraq won't be a big threat in the future..
But I have to remind that we don't really mind it being a threat (the US) because we're not it's enemies. If NK would be threat, we could be it's enemies. There's a difference.
I think there less than 1 people in this board who would like to see NK be the bigger threat than the US.
I don't like to see anyone as a threat, except maybe the United States of Finland.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Pekka
If those were the options, then the US definitely. No question. But.. in the future.. I could see NK becoming something of a threat for all of us. Iraq won't be a big threat in the future..
But I have to remind that we don't really mind it being a threat (the US) because we're not it's enemies. If NK would be threat, we could be it's enemies. There's a difference.
I think there less than 1 people in this board who would like to see NK be the bigger threat than the US.
I don't like to see anyone as a threat, except maybe the United States of Finland.

Would you like to join our new NAFTA? (North ATLANTIC Free Trade Act). We already have Turkey and Croatia lined up because of their hot women. Finland-babes!!

[Sandman]

America, by a mile. It's a war every year these days.

[Kramerman]

The United States is dangerous because it is immensely powerful and is allowed to use force against it's own citizens more excessively than any other western nation.
And has a large infrastucture and personel for controlling the populace in place.

Is this so?

[Pekka]

If it would be up to me, sure. If it were up to me, we could also put away visas and other things making it more difficult to travel, also taxes, 100% free trade and everything. Not a problem at all.
No restrictions, everything goes, just like there is no border.