"Well just try comparing the great US of A with <insert barbarian country here>!!"
doesn't make the best argument folks.
Nor does it make you a role model, let alone number 1.
Instead of comparing yourselves to the middle east, india, china, russia, africa, etc. compare yourselves to north western europe perhaps, and where do you stand on living conditions, gun violence rates, medical care, education, literacy, etc?
Ranking slightly better than mexico on these issues doesn't give you much right to boast.