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Submitted by Peter Herz (United States), Feb 5, 2012 at 19:02

I meant to say that I read an earlier edition of Rummel's book. I hope he and his fellow Democratic Peace Theory advocates are right (I am, after all, an American), but I have a fear that they're probably wrong--and that human nature will remain as intractably violent even with worldwide democracy.

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