Ninety years ago today, World War I ended when Germany, the last of the Central Powers to capitulate, signed the armistice on November 11, 1918 in a railway car at Compiègnes. The cost of this war was staggering; of the 60 million European soldiers mobilized from 1914 to 1918, 8 million were killed, 7 million were permanently disabled, and 15 million suffered serious injuries. Over 16 million people were killed, including nearly 7 million civilians. There is hardly a village in France that does not have a memorial to honor its WW I dead; on November 11, these monuments are decorated with flowers. Friends and allies are not forgotten, and it was good to see the US flag in Cannes, along with many others that are off camera. And what have we learned? Not a thing...