Tom,
Re: Woodrow Wilson --
Your comment leads me to reflect upon the remarkable impact of the Internet on the distribution of history. The fact that Pox News is part of an elitist conspiracy to keep the American public in the dark is nothing new. I recall vividly the stark contrast between what was purveyed to the public in the mid-1960's by all the networks and major newspapers vis a vis the truth that was coming out in publications like Ramparts Magazine and I.F. Stone's Weekly. Thankfully, there are now dozens of outlets for the truth for every Ramparts of that age.
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Until recently, I've had held Woodrow Wilson in fairly high regard, based upon the pabulum that is passed on by the likes of PBS, our public schools systems and middle-of-the-road historians.
But no more. Based on snippets of information available on the Internet, I've come to gain a deeper appreciation of the era that Wilson lived in. Were I alive in that era, I would have been firmly ensconsed in the Anti-imperialist League, of which Mark Twain was a leading light. He represented the Jeffersonian strain of our culture in that era. Wilson, OTOH, turns out to be an elite imperialist, someone who would have been comfortable with Lyndon Johnson's chicanery to trick the nation into a quagmire in South East Asia, or Bush with his Crusade for the sake of Israel. I think that one of the worst aspects of America is its missionary zeal to subjugate other world cultures with our own inane and eccentric culture, our grasping for financial excess and exploitation and our zeal to use militarism for control.
Wilson may have played the gentleman, but he was any but. |
