If Remembrance Day gives us anything, it's the headache-inducing clarity that war is a terrible, wasteful pursuit.

But there's something about the grimy, wholesale horror of the Great War that may never be surpassed. We've just become more efficient at killing in the years since.

I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad about that. Still, maybe if we continue down this slope, we'll reach a point at which war is sending a foreign leader to sit on the Naughty Step?




To the soldiers that have been forgotten. Let's hope the greater lessons never are.