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  The War was as much about relieving pent-up international tension after a complex system of shifting alliances that formed and reformed during the 19th century as about any actual cause..
  
  interesting comments by Ian Hislop on his "Stiff Upper Lip" programme last night that we sleepwalked into the war - as if a Stuff Upper Lip alone was enough to stop a bullet.
  
  it is worth questioning why we felt we had to be involved at all, although the simple answer is that we were honouring an alliance commitment.

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