On all fronts right-wingers are trying to turn back the clock: on abortion, on the environment, on social services. The carnage in Iraq can now be considered another front in the war on progress in the light of
this report, from the Human Security Centre. The world, amazingly enough, is growing more peaceful. As Ivo Daalder at
TPM Cafe discusses, the end of colonialism and the cold war have spelled a marked decrease in the frequency, size and intensity of armed conflicts since the 1950s. Too bad for Bush that
Philip Cooney wasn't around to edit
this report for "consistency."
(As noted in my blog.)