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The Goldman example as reiterated in this article badly misstates what democratic peace theory actually claims (democracies rarely use force against other democracies) and ignores that there are legitimate debates in academia about what attributes make a state a democracy and that the behavior of states which have been democracies for many decades does differ from newer democracies in important ways. These definitional debates and differences in behavior exist outside of the realm of democratic peace theory. Basically, in an attempt to show an example of the "no true Scotsman" fallacy, the article discusses democratic peace theory very badly. (11/22/2019)