The anniversary of World War I has been in the news as of late.  Solemn words have been said, and in Canada, the funny idea that somehow it forged our nation from a quaint backwater into a respected player on the world stage.  Sending people to die horrible deaths should not be the price of entry into world politics.  WWI laid the foundation for WWII and both featured the notion that somehow civilian casualties were OK and even necessary to the war effort.  Here we are in the 21st century and have the ultimate ‘soft target’ weapons available to us and they are not in anyway guaranteeing our safety, but rather our destruction – ain’t progress grand?

One can trace the insanity from WWI all the way to the present – let’s let John Oliver comment on the present state of affairs and the nuclear deterrent that keeps us ‘safe’.