8/4/2014, World War I started 100 years ago today. It was the first “general” war since the defeat of Napoleon 99 years earlier. The world fell apart in just over a month after a senseless terrorist act because of the same small-mindedness that is driving the current insanity. If problem solving continues to take a back seat to pettiness I’m really afraid we may some day look back on these times the way we do the summer of 1914.