This is an excellently well put argument. It's easy to forget how horrible, bloody and inhumane wars of conquest for much of the last millennium were, be they c

This is an excellently well put argument. It's easy to forget how horrible, bloody and inhumane wars of conquest for much of the last millennium were, be they conducted by Ottomans, Mongols, or the various factions making up 'christendom'. Nearly 80 years of substantive peace on the continent of Europe is a huge achievement, and one I hope can be replicated worldwide again. That cry of "never again" is very much worth listening to.