Canada, the country that wants to be like the US, but not really, reports Bush’s policies are bearing fruit abroad.
According to the Stockholm Institute, which measures the number of conflicts that produce greater than 1,000 deaths in a year, 19 major wars were in progress in 2003 compared to 33 in 1991.
Okay. Some people will quibble with a report from a single report. So, here’s another:
Project Ploughshares, which measures the number of wars that accumulate 1,000 deaths from the beginning of a conflict, reports a drop to 33 conflicts in 2003 from 44 in 1995.
Maybe there’s hope for this old world after all.