11/11/1918 TO 11/11/2018 

Today is the day that world leaders are gathered by the dozens in Paris to remember the end of World War I a century ago.

"The War To End All Wars" turned out to be "The War That Started All Wars" marking a decline in civilization, the British Empire's decline underway in the aftermath, Europe devastated, Communism created in Russia, Fascism coming to Italy, Nazi Germany waiting in the wings.

One can only hope that world leaders will find ways today to prevent more war and more calamity.

The notion that today's Russia, Iran and Syria are bad players like "Animal Assad", responsible for humanitarian crisis and chemical weapons use in Syria is as as much of a farce as German soldiers  "the Hun" tossing babies into bayonets in Belgium a century ago.

Its propaganda and lying just like it was in that horrible awful First World War to draw more nations into the bloodshed.

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PETER HITCHENS COLUMN 11/10/2018 POST ON FREE REPUBLIC