Our freedom?

[chickenfeet]

I am getting really pissed off with the WW1 commemoration nonsense.  If I hear one more person talk about people who "sacrificed" their lives for "our" "freedom" or "way of life" I may have to punch them in the nose.  I can respect the people, on both sides, who fought and died in that war but that's as far as it goes.  The world's great imperial powers managed a monumental cock up that started a war.  None of them had the guts or gumption to find a way of backing out of that cock up until millions had died.  The cock up they made of the peace treaties created both the necessary conditions for the second, even more murderous, world war and the modern middle east.  The real legacy of WW1 is being played out in Gaza, Syria, Iraq and the Ukraine.  I'm not celebrating.  The only "lights out" I'd like to see tonight are the ones punched from the leadership of Hamas, ISIS, Israel, the CIA stooges in Kyiv and Putin's psychopaths.