Was World War I a Necessary War?

[GMantis]

No, and its to bad we got into it because save France;s skin became something of an obsession with us for most of the century

Saving France had very little to do with entering either of the World Wars.

[GMantis]

That said I'm a fan of jointly controlled "free states" in questionable ethnically mixed areas such as Northern Ireland, the Trieste/Istrian peninsula area, and of course Bosnia.  Of course,  most of Ireland should be Ireland and South Tyrol should have been kept with Austria. 

South Tyrol was mostly Italian and Italy lost 600 thousand fighting for the allies. They couldn't send them away empty handed after that. Italians actually thought they were given too little territory. Of course this is incorrect, but not giving them at least the Italian part of South Tyrol would be an even greater injustice.
And Croats and Slovenes are South Slavic, not West Slavic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_languages

[GMantis]

Really, the problem with Versailles was that it was neither too harsh, so that Germany wouldn't be able to start another war, nor was it lenient enough so that revanchism wouldn't arise in Germany. And above all, no one was willing to enforce it.

[GMantis]

Please don't call the Trentino "South Tirol".

Technically, it's a correct as the entire region was part of Tyrol before WWI.