Will 2014 be like 1914 ???

Several oracles are predicting that we shall see a repeat of the cataclysm of 1914:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/01/06/pers-j06.html

Is that why Obama ad-Dajjal and the US Congress seem to have such a cavalier attitude about our future? Are they anticipating going out with a bang?

“War is the method by which capitalism, at the climax of its development, seeks to solve its insoluble contradictions.”

Leon Trotsky