This past month Western leaders have been remembering and honouring the victims of World War I while guardedly acknowledging the madness of the 1914-18 European atrocity that roped in dozens of countries around the globe.
The bloodbath that left 19 million dead is sometimes referred to as The Great War. Yet there is nothing great about war. One Irish conscientious objector who refused conscription bluntly and accurately stated, ‘war is organised slaughter’.