Can anyone run this epithet to ground for me?
'No two countries that both have a McDonalds have ever gone to war'.
The only source I've found so far is a 1997 article by a U.S. FCC executive at:
http://www.csis.org/ics/dia/intnelso.html
" There's a very nice article that Tom Freedman has written where he
makes the statement that no two countries that both have a McDonalds
have ever gone to war. That's a facile observation, but at the core
is a very important observation: when you reach a point where
McDonalds thinks the market and the political system is stable
enough, the economic picture is rosy enough, they will make an
investment, and they will have franchises. At that point, most
countries are so intertwined in world markets that they see it as in
there interest to not go to war, to have a stable system that will
allow for economic growth"
Anyone ever heard of Tom Freedman? MetaCrawler hasn't ...
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