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In spite of the fact that he disses Pinochet, you know you just gotta have your VDH fix.

It is widely said that democracies rarely attack other democracies. Thus the more that exist in the world — and at no time in history have there been more such governments than today — the less likely is war itself. That cliché proves, in fact, mostly true.

What he's missing is the McDonald's Rule which says that no two countries with a McDonald's have ever attacked each other. It neatly sidesteps that whole Confederacy problem.