whether german, british or the leaders of any government at the time, all considered that the only way to resolve their differences was by putting hundreds of thousands of their young men in freezing, filthy trenches to kill each other to win a few metres of muddy land. when this didn't seem to work - send up a few thousand more youths to the front and repeat. if this isn't the definition of what constitutes the most callous, brutal, brainless bunch of idiots in history - then who would you suggest is more stupid?