Yeah, and Everyone's Just Dying to Get Into Iceland

Not that I'm taking offense to Iceland in and of itself. Sounds like a lovely place and I even have an acquaintance who teaches there. But, you know, it's Iceland. I would hope it's peaceful. It's remote, pretty damn cold and honestly, there just isn't much action going on up there.

Anyway, a consortium of mewling moonbats with way too much time on their hands has decided Iceland is the world's most peaceful country. That's all well and good. But that honor and five bucks will get these jerkoffs a cup of Starbuck's latte. That and fawning coverage for being so concerned with whirled peas.

They'll never say it, but it's simply a means of bashing America. They detest the fact we're the greatest country on earth, despite our inability to find good presidential candidates.

You see, according to the Desmond Tutu's of the world, we're 97th on he list. We suck so much, our borders are inundated with refugees. We're so horrible, everyone has their hands out, begging us for money.

Iceland is the world's most peaceful country, according to an index measuring internal and external turmoil. Only one of the G8 states makes it into the top 10 of the survey, which was published yesterday.

While Iraq, Somalia and Sudan come last, the Global Peace Index survey suggests the world is a marginally more secure place than a year ago. Angola, Indonesia and India made the greatest strides away from conflict since the last poll.

Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, Iceland's foreign minister, welcomed her country's ranking.

"We are very pleased that the index confirms the core values of a small democratic society ... which has never had a military and has effectively practised peace for hundreds of years," she said. "We can feel that other states also find this of importance and it is in fact a driving force in our first-time candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN security council."

Just what we need, a non-military nation lending their knowledge of military affairs to the UN Security Council.

Which means they're a shoo-in.

While Iceland leads the field, Nordic countries again feature at the top of the index, which is compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit from 24 indicators of external and internal measures of peace, including UN deployments overseas and levels of violent crime nationally. Denmark and Norway come second and third, followed by New Zealand and Japan, the G8's sole representative in the top 10.

Small, stable, democratic countries are the most peaceful, according to the index. Economic power is not a guarantee of a high ranking. Of the G8, France came 36th, Britain 49th, the US 97th, and Russia 131st.

Yes, France, home of the annual carbeques, ranks 61 spots ahead of us.

Who said appeasement and fecklessness didn't pay off?

Just check out these luminaries endorsing this nonsense.

The index, which was launched under the auspices of the Institute for Economics and Peace thinktank, is endorsed by the Nobel laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Professor Joseph Stiglitz and Professor Muhammad Yunus. It also has the support of tycoons such as Sir Richard Branson and Sir Mark Moody-Stuart.

Good grief, Joseph Stiglitz, an economic inspiration for Hugo Chavez.

Here's the kicker.

The United States slipped from 96th last year, but was still ahead of foe Iran which ranked 105th. It, however, lagged Belarus, Cuba, South Korea, Chile, Libya and others which were listed as more peaceful.

Clearly, any survey that considers Cuba and Libya ahead of the United States in anything other than misery is obviously worthless.

Which is why the media will be having an orgasm over this drivel.