100 years ago six assassins waited in ambush along the well publicized motorcade route in Sarejevo in the Balkans. Their target was Archduke Francis Ferdinand heir to the Austria-Hungary Empire. Though the assassins bungled their first attempt that day through a series of unfortunate events one of the six shot the Archduke killing him and his wife, Sofia. The killings set off a worldwide conflagration because of a string of entangling alliances.
Four years later 10 million people across Europe lay dead. The other 5 assassins later said they would never have taken part in the assassination had they know what the outcome would be.
We would do well to learn from this colossal miscalculation.
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