This statement was made by none other than John McCain, the Republican running for the Republican nomination for president.

Is history repeating itself?  From 1337 to 1453 historians in the "Encyclopedia of World History" provide details of this era of perpetual war, labeled the Hundred Years War.  

It began when Mohammed bin Tughlak, Sultan of Delhi, punished his subjects for threatening to revolt.  The Sultan forced Delhi residents to move south to Daulatabad, the Hundred Years War between England and France started with rumors a French fleet had been sighted that was preparing to leave for Scotland.

War continued all over Europe.  The Black Plague spread across Europe in 1348.  First it was in Florence, Italy in 1348 during April, spreading to France in June and to England in July.  Jews were blamed for spreading the Black Death by poisoning wells.