This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way Tom Harbin here with you.

War and peace, the future of war in the world, something called Democratic Peace Theory that you may not have heard of.

I think that this is really actually a very big deal.

Back in 1795, 1795, America has won the Revolutionary War, George Washington is

president.

Emmanuel Kant, the philosopher,

the German philosopher, writes this piece. It wasn't quite a book. It was like a long pamphlet. It was called

Toward Perpetual Peace, a philosophical draft. I won't even try the German.

And in this he said that we could end war for all

time. Now keep in mind this was America we weren't literally the first democracy ever, you know, you had the Greek democracies and you had the, you know, some parts of the Roman Empire were democracies, but we were arguably, and there had been, you you know in the low countries in the Netherlands

and what we now call the Netherlands and and some other areas there had been some countries

that had kind of put themselves together in a

democratic fashion. But we were the giant experiment for the world. I mean, you

know, the vast majority of people in the world figured that there's no way

That democracy can work. I mean you can't trust the people after all we've had kings for two thousand years. We've had popes in a running things

Basically warlords and all that's

very stable. I mean feudalism was 1400 years in Europe. So isn't that the way things

are supposed to be?

Emmanuel Kant said no.

His point was that if every country in the world became a democracy,

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