>Or Harry Lime in The Third Man
>
>"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

I'm waiting for a chance to reply that one ever since I first saw it :).

"And you have a few centuries of independence, free market, no war on their soil but a booming military industry... and what did that produce? An expensive specialist who will decide who gets to keep the dog after a divorce."

(IOW, any other variation on the subject of "war is good for human development" is equally ridiculous, Graham being a Green or not)