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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (163693)	7/24/2001 7:26:30 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Some of the problems with the Treaty of Versailles: it enshrined the principle of self- determination while leaving substantial national minorities within states, thus exacerbating the tension between ethnic nationalism and territorial integrity; it made democracy the touchstone of legitimacy, thus inherently destabilizing any regime that was not yet democratic; it tried to supplant balance of power politics with world federalism, thus weakening traditional security arrangements, and creating an inherent conflict between sovereignty and international cooperation; it established overly burdensome war reparations, and engaged in punitive annexation, thus ensuring a motive for war in the future. without crushing the capacity to wage it; it confirmed an onerous debt structure among the Allies, thus weakening international finance and ensuring an eventual debt crisis; it intruded the United States into the settlement of terms without guaranteeing its continued involvement in assuring compliance; and it neglected the revolutionary threat in countries exhausted by the war........