Comment by notahacker
13 years ago
If the best example of current US performance relative to other developed countries you can think of is "killed fewer people than other protagonists in last century's World Wars" (which is essentially what your cited stats show) you may as well not bother.
n.b. I'm sure Rummel would grudgingly admit that the US is far worse than any other developed country for committing acts of "democide" this century. In fact it's probably the only metric in which a sane person could argue the US might have performed worse than North Korea in recent years.
Yeah, I rank governments that murder millions of their own people pretty low on the scale of "human rights". Sorry.
Edit: Most of those people weren't "killed in World War II". They were murdered. By their own governments.
You responded to a comment that the US ranked poorly in relation to 'every other developed country' with an outdated casualty count implying the US government might have been less deadly to human life than Germany, Japan and the UK before 1945 (and also less deadly than a few non-developed countries since then). I'm pretty sure the same set of statistics points towards the US government causing more deaths than other developed countries since 1945, which is why I thought it probably didn't help your case. Sorry.
Yes, I take the long view when it comes to goverments.
I fully expect the current Eurozone crisis to devolve into bloodshed before it's over, by the way.
> Yeah, I rank governments that murder millions of their own people pretty low on the scale of "human rights". Sorry.
You seem only interested in comparing the US to undeveloped and developing countries, which is not a useful comparison.
Why not compare the US to developed countries?
Trail of tears...