End of " the great war "!

Today we celebrate the end of the first world war - at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month,

That war was so terrible in terms of loss of life that it was dubbed " the war to end all wars ". It didn't - and there is the prospect of even greater future slaughter should nuclear weapons be used in conflict.

What happened to peace ?

After the first world war ended the nations of the world formed the League of Nations. That failed - and so we moved on to the second world war. Again the objective was world peace when the United Nations arose out of the ashes of the old League of Nations - and it suffered the same fate.

Korea. Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan - and a dozen more little local wars in remote parts of the planet.

So - what is today's " Remembrance day " really about ?

It should be about the end of war, but in reality it seems to illustrate the inevitability of war - and set many people wondering just which future war will come next !