Survey on the Greatest Threat to Peace

[catscradle]

Time (Europe) - The Biggest Threat To Peace - Which country really poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003? TIME asks for readers' views.

Check it out and find out what the majority of Europeans think about the Iraq/N. Korea issue.

Comments

[alighiera.livejournal.com]

I'm actually surprised it's below 90%. My paper printed a very similar survey done in Germany, Austria and Switzerland yesterday where the US rated 97% when people were asked for most dangerous and unpredictable country of the world...

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

I don't know what to say except - sorry =( Bush is not the elected president, the American people didn't vote for him. I just hope we can get him out in 2004 and restore the country to some semblance of sanity . . .

[alighiera.livejournal.com]

Don't be sorry. It's hardly your fault that Florida decided to count votes in a very creative manner.

[morrigan71.livejournal.com]

LOL! Not surprising since the majority of Europeans hate us anyways. (Excluding the cool people on LiveJorunal of course ;) And the fact that we have a COMPLETE moron in the Oval Office at present. My I.Q. is higher than his. It *really* is. And I feel in no way equipped to be President. Scary, eh?

HOWEVER....I'd say Saddam is extensively more unpredictable so I voted for Iraq. =P A man who had members of his own family killed seems a TAD more dangerous to me.

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Well, no one is denying that Saddam isn't a nice guy. I think most people are in agreement that he's pretty nasty. But that doesn't make him a threat to us. We've got absolutely no evidence that he's got weapons of mass destruction. Rumsfeld is saying that the unability for the weapons inspectors to find anything is evidence that Iraq has these weapons. Or alternatively it could mean the obvious and Iraq really doesn't have them. Our justice system state innocent until proven guilty - but one again the US is taking the stand that they don't have to answers to any laws including their own.

I don't think we care. We want the oil. The world will be depleated of it's oil in 30 years. Might be why we're shrugging our shoulders at North Korea who's told us they have the weapons and they plan to keep them, while we're getting ready to go to war with Iraq - who if did did happen to have a nuke - wouldn't have anything near the sophistication level of N. Korea, who in turn are themselves far behind us and the rest of the nuclear powers in terms of the technology for both the bomb and it's delivery system.

The US is far more dangereous than any other country right now because we have the power to plunge the world into war. Everyone in watching Iraq - they so much as blink the wrong way, the wrath of the world will be open them and Iraq will be a smudge in the mideast. Saddam isn't going to do anything because it would mean certain anihilation. We, on the other hand, will do what we please to secure our interests - and that makes us far more dangerous. Whats worse, we're playing in the back door of Europe, Africa and Asia - we don't carry near the risks of those that might ally themselves to us. And the people of Europe have spoken - they do not want a war.