All the blasts you talk about are external or internal terrorist attacks and not psycho kids walking around with guns in hand.... if you are willing to call them terrorists in your USA, then fine, both countries are comparable. As for home of the half of world's poor, so what? At least they dont go around killing people... how confident are you of walking the streets of Detroit downtown in the middle of the night? how confident are you of walking in to a redneck store in the south? stop kidding yourself man...
As for setting our house in order, we are not the country that went to Iraq or any other country to set their house in order... we are indeed trying to set our own house in order, that is, if you have not already noticed.