"When we help lift societies out of poverty, we create new markets for American goods and new jobs for American workers. When we help reduce chaos and suffering, we make America safer, because prosperous nations are less likely to breed violence and export terror."
I don't think wealth is necessarily a good way to measure how likely a nation is to "breed violence and export terror." Going back to an earlier an entry, It seems that the UK and US are breeding grounds for rebellious, crime mongering youth. From the article from that entry...
While an ageing, ever more crowded Europe looks on anxiously at the stress behaviour currently being exhibited by its own dysfunctional young – be it Parisian car barbeques or riots in Denmark and Germany – our continental cousins can’t help but notice that many of these behaviours debuted in Anglo-American cultures.
The US and UK are among the wealthiest, the most developed...yet
According to the Unicef report, which measured 40 indicators of quality of life – including the strength of relationships with friends and family, educational achievements and personal aspirations, and exposure to drinking, drug taking and other risky behaviour – British children have the most miserable upbringing in the developed world. American children come next, second from the bottom.
Lovely.
"Prosperous nations are less likely to breed violence and export terror."
Hardly. We need to look past just wealth. Judging from personal observations, it seems that those with the most money and free time are the ones who cause the most trouble. Violence and terror don't stem from poverty; violence and terror stem from issues much deeper than just financial stability.
This is not to say that wealth and poverty have nothing to do with this issue at all--just to say thta they are not the only contributing factors.
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Seriously. Economically, more wealth does create more jobs and a higher standard of living but I guess it's obvious that that is not proportional to happiness. I attribute happiness to love, especially in families. Loving parents will usually raise loving children who will be loving in their relationships. Assuming that love is genuine
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