"Over 6000 civilians including children were deliberately murdered in Belgium, and more in France."
Ten million Congolese non combatants were massacred by the Belgians in peacetime - the world did nothing - why should the world go to war over 6,000 deaths in wartime?
Just as the world stood silent then, you refuse to acknowledge that this consequence of Empire happened.
It is never the people who cause the wars who have to go out to fight them.
Wartime atrocities are the consequences of all wars, by both sides, they are never the causes of them
World War One - its reasons, the manner in which it was conducted and the carefully calculated loss of life was an atrocity in itself.
The sheer bestiality of sending men into face-to-face combat over pieces of strategically valueless territory and calculating each yard of advance by the expendable number of men is an atrocity.
These facts are now a fully accepted part of our history, whatever your career journalists may claim.
Jim Carroll