Civilisation has nothing to do with war imo (well a little bit, but that's too little)

Civilisation has to do with welfare, income, richness, all sorts of things
And when you look at that countries like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (countries that are pretty all alike) are high ranked. And most of the time above USA.

Look at the GDP and you'll see the European Union is above the USA

Not to speak of the Dutch Health Care system, if one thing is civilised that is.