> Since the US is the most powerful nation-state, it's the most violent; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Gen

> Since the US is the most powerful nation-state, it's the most violent; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_South_Ossetia_war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_South_Ossetia_war (blame whichever side(s) you like) This is not to say that the U.S. has always acted in a way that reduces the risk of war. And obviously there's nothing positive to say about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the military itself does not inevitably lead to massive violence. Even in Iraq most of the casualties have come from Muslims killing Muslims.