Why attack Big Mac? Leave a Comment / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / November 15, 2003 / 2003, American culture, Arab culture, Canada Dry, Coca-Cola, Iraq War, Islamic culture, liberal democracies, McDonald's in Middle East, Mecca-Cola, Ramadhan, soft power / 4 minutes of reading Liberal democracies almost never fight each other. They’d rather have the good things.