political science research methodology assignment: 

" Thomas Friedman, a New York Times columnist, wrote an essay entitled “Turning Swords into Beef-Burgers” in 1996. The bottom line of his thesis is this: no two countries that have a McDonald’s have ever fought a war against each other. Following Friedman’s argument, we can safely infer that there is a causal connection between the presence of McDonald’s and world peace."

hurray for mac's! harbinger of peace and prosperity!
oh sheesh. but perhaps this guy has a point. perhaps mac's makes people so obese they can't fight anymore, and they can only sit burp and sling burgers at each other. or maybe it provides an outlet for people's aggression& nbsp;in hellokitty queues where one can pinch push and knock down others to get in front.
then again mac's also encourages people to share in communal eating. like one is more likely to go to mac's with a group of friends, buy meals and - glee! - pool the fries! hee, the fond memories of fridays after recruit band pracs when joyce sm and i would troop off to mac's, dump all our coins on the table and calculate the best way to convert our money to fries. "ok, four dollars... one large and one medium!" that was when fast food was a luxury for us straitened students and the only fatness we were concerned about was how plump our fries packets were. ohoh, and before mac's raised the price of fries! and we'd sit and talk for ages and slosh squiggles words  ;with (always) curry and barbeque sauce and the odd packet of chilli on the trays then sneak off feeling high like we'd done some awfully daring act of vandalism. see, mac's - medium for creativity! oh the power of mac's. perhaps then georgie and saddam could have just sat down and shared a pack of fries and then that'd have been it!